Sullum: Trump's Mass Cancellation of Student Visas Illustrates the Lawlessness of His Immigration Crackdown

I'm skeptical about some bits of this, but, overall, it seems pretty plausible, and is exactly the kind of thing many of us are worrying about.

   So far as I can tell, these foreign students are just being used as pawns in the administration's effort to get Harvard--and thereby academia--to change its ways. In general, the changes that strike me as necessary--so far as I can tell, the administration is trying to release universities from leftist ideological capture. Given the left's iron grip on academia, this is likely to require extreme measures--measures that many of us would not ordinarily countenance.

   Similarly, it seems that the administration will have to use extraordinary measures to upset Democrat's thus-far-extremely effective commitment to de facto open borders. Currently, their strategy seems to be to allow mass illegal immigration when they are in power, and then use lawfare, propaganda, etc. to block any efforts to undo their handiwork when Republicans are in power. And: it seems to be a lot easier to let in ten million illegal aliens than it is to get rid of, say, 25% of them...

   In a sense, the Democrats are now saying: we'll disregard and mutilate the law to let in a tidal wave of illegals...and we'll do everything we can to force you to stick strictly to the law with respect to getting rid of even some of them. Nobody thinks we have any chance of getting rid of all of them.

   At any rate, I'm torn between:

[1] My inherent aversion to authoritarianism of any kind, bending rules, making excuses for my side, and applying double standards.

and

[2] My suspicion that the left can't be beaten on these issues without bending the rules.

Add to this that I think two of the most effective ways of destroying the country are (a) destroying our universities and (b) mass immigration--especially if it's unregulated, from the Third World, and from basically one area.

   Also, as I've said, I think that the vanguard of the left--though certainly not the average Democrat in the street--aims to completely control universities (more or less as an end in itself)--and to destroy the USA. The extreme left is quite explicit about aiming to destroy the USA. There's no question about that. And they now set the agenda for the less-extreme, more-centrist left...that's now the Democrats got into the fix they're currently in--they've become the trailing edge of the radical left.

   Needless to say: in the future, I may look back on my ambivalent support for Trump as the biggest mistake of my political life.