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President Donald Trump is showing up a fundamental flaw in the basic Biden-Harris theory of illegal immigration.
Specifically that America is somehow at fault because people jump our borders and that we need to bribe the origin nations of the illegal flood with goodies like trade deals and spending on spurious “root causes,” all because an evil and guilty United States has to pay and pay and pay before even thinking of maybe asking nicely for repatriations.
For proof, witness Sunday’s almost-instant cave in from Colombian President Gustavo Petro after he tried to go head to head with Trump on the issue.
Petro initially agreed to take planeloads of repatriated illegals as part of Trump’s border crackdown.
While the flights were aloft, reportedly, Petro — a former leftist guerilla — did a 180 and refused to accept them.
Trump promptly moved to set up “emergency” tariffs of up to 50% on Colombian goods and slammed down visa sanctions and enhanced inspection requirements on Colombian travellers.
Petro continued to splutter for a bit but within hours gave in, even offering up his own presidential plane as a transport.
No US promises to somehow fix Colombia’s very bad social problems, which range from traditional gangs to narco-terror armies; no handouts or special treatment from Washington.
All it took was making clear that refusing to accept repatriations would bring real economic and political consequences, then . . . letting those consequences fly.
And the result was total capitulation.
Biden’s much-vaunted ploy for beating back the flood tide, meanwhile, consisted of vaguely tasking Harris with balming those pesky ol’ root causes (and otherwise screaming “Come on in!” from every rooftop).
We all know how that went.
Turns out the endless flood of illegal immigration is, in fact, the product of Washington policy choices, and it can be stopped.
Including by waving — who’d a thunk? — a big stick.
The United States is a superpower. Yes, a generally benevolent one, but still with the pre-eminent economic and military might to pursue the national interest, especially in the face of another nation’s absurd game-playing.
That applies to immigration policy as it does to everything else; when the country acts like a superpower, other nations fall in line.
No bribes required.