Boerne, Texas – As I said earlier in this room, when people start to bring a problem on the road without mentioning it, my antenna goes up. And recently, the aggressive deportation measures of the Trump administration were fueled on an interview.
This week in Pinchy’s Seafood Restaurant I met Paul and Tonya, who live nearby. The city and the surrounding area are doing reasonably well. High-end stores occupy the limestone buildings from 1910 or so origin together with fancy restaurants.
Trump sends ice to expand deportation efforts in the largest cities in America
It was Tonya who raised the issue of deportations and told me: “There are so many hard -working people here, and I don’t know if they have been documented or not, and I don’t ask. But they are good and decent. It’s scary that they can just disappear.”
Paul is a local businessman and because his company handles federal contracts, he cannot hire illegal migrants himself. But he told me that “many companies have no replacement for it.”
I don’t argue with the people I meet on the road; I just listen. But I couldn’t help to hear the voices of others I spoke, in particular some of the greatest supporters of Trump, whose attitude is: “Sorry, but you have come illegal and now you have to go.”
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Name has sworn that deportations will continue. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque and Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty images)
In fact, it is often these better communities accused of the illegal immigration problem, because of their desire for cheap domestic and landscape architecture.
Polling actually indicates that the deportation of illegal migrants who are not accused of other crimes has a majority support for all voters, with strong support from independent. But it is difficult to know how much of that support comes from people who know someone under the direct threat of deportation.
Earlier in the day I met Bill, a Democrat in his 60s who told me that he had believed that Trump’s plan was “to deport criminals, not to raise at Walmart.” I hear that sentiment quite a bit.
Since January, since the campaign track and border Tom Homan, Trump has always said that if an illegal without other criminal prosecution becomes entangled in a raid, they are being deported.
On the other hand, Trump recently sent some mixed messages about the need for illegal farm and hotel staff, promise that there will be no amnesty, but perhaps a guest worker program or something for those industries.
Director of American immigration and customs enforcement, Tom Homan is at “Fox & Friends.” (Photo by John Lamparski/Getty images)
Bill had also heard that ice fascinated Catholic churches, something that Homan spoke this week after a California bishop, Alberto Rojas, gave a special dispensation of illegal immigrants to Miss Mass, referring to the fear that they could be arrested in the church.
That is a message that the administration must repeat loud and clear, because many people believe it happens. What struck me most about my conversations about deportations, especially with Tanya, was that this clearly had an emotional impact. It also did for Bill, together with others. That does not apply to every problem.
For the worried people I met in Texas, the Trump administration has to send a clearer signal. If the deal is that everyone should go, just like the theme of the aggressive TV advertisements of Homeland Security Security Secretary Kristi, that should not only be mentioned clearly but justified.
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On the other hand, as Trump has indicated, a few exceptions have been made, which must also be divided into detail, so that people can judge the policy. The confusion is currently becoming a problem.
It is understandable why President Trump acts carefully here. In contrast to rates or the attack at the nuclear locations of Iran, which did not broken the Maga coalition, massive deportations are a much different matter.
There are a lot of Trump voters that I have met, and I am not talking about podcasters, for whom the promise to deport everyone here illegally, or at least try, is the main reason why they support him. For them everything would be a bitter betrayal near Amnesty.
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It seems almost unfair that, after a miraculous way to close a southern border that had been a flowing wound, in just six months, Trump is in such a political pickle about deportations. But nobody has ever said that he is president is easy.
For now, the best administration can do to get his story straight and right with the American people about what the deportation plan is real. Then drop the political chips where they can.
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