American Leviathan: "From Sanctuary Cities to Street Armies: Leviathan's War on Citizenship"

Agreed!

Whole-heartedly.

   To summarize my two-tiered left hypothesis: the radical fringe of the left--no longer really a fringe--is currently the vanguard, setting the agenda. And that agenda includes, first and foremost: destruction of the West (ergo capitalism). And one of the most effective strategies for destabilizing a nation is: promoting unchecked immigration. The less-radical left--which is the fat part of the curve--won't go along with that. So the project is packaged to them in humanitarian wrapping with an emotive bow on the top: oh, those poor people...families belong together...etc. Then there's the usual lame philosophical quasi-defense: Borders are arbitrary...bigot.

   One consequence of all this is to undermine the very idea of nations and citizenship. Which is the point. 

   At any rate, the unstated policy of the Democrats is now: when we're in power, we're going to let in a flood of illegal aliens. When you're in power, we're going to prevent you from deporting them.

   If you watched footage of the flash mobs--and I've watched a lot of it--what you hear is mostly the same shit over and over: Why are you doing this? Let them go! Show us your face! blah blah blah Turtle Island...No one is illegal on stolen land...blah blah blah... Pure emotion. No reason. An abject inability to think the next thought--What will be the consequence of not enforcing immigration laws? The left has become a mob of Firefly-esque Reavers, whether online or in person. Shrieking, howling, mindless...

   If the left were more rational about this, immigration laws could be enforced in a more orderly way. But the left now thinks--or at least acts as if it thinks--that no one should be deported. Thus we must choose between: (a) allowing the nation to go farther down the road to destruction...and (b) enforcing immigration law more-or-less with a hammer rather than a scalpel... We can't be as careful as we might like to be when shrieking mobs of lunatic cat ladies, Pantyfa Blackshirts, and Greenhat lawyer-activists could descend on the operation at any moment.

   Though, actually, Trump's approach is still overly limited--we're not even really going after illegals generally. We're only going after criminal illegals--though ICE is allowed to sweep up other illegal aliens caught up in raids targeting criminals. Which is a smart policy--but, still, too limited.

   And if you haven't vividly represented to yourself what can go wrong when we enforce immigration laws in these ways, here's something that will slap you upside of the head about it all.