Ever heard someone once accused of being homophobic reply by saying, “why, some of my best friends are gay?”

Or a White person accused of being a racist respond by saying, “I’ve had Black friends all my life?”

Something similar happens to those defending the policy to secure the nation’s border and to deport those in the country illegally. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin recently tripped on this one.

Biden’s administration supported open borders and eventual citizenship for illegals. President Donald Trump shut the border and now actively deports illegals. To backheel Trump supporters, the open border crowd accuses deportation supporters of hating immigrants.

To be clear, I support modest immigration levels of properly vetted individuals, not because it is good for the immigrants, but because it is good for America. Immigration stirs the genetic pot. It adds a beneficial new energy to society. Immigrants with the training and skills American industry needs fill gaps in the workforce. Sensible immigration is a classic win-win situation.

Progressives have something else in mind. Sure, they allude to those issues, but that is just window dressing, cheap chrome bolted onto a poorly built jalopy.

The open borders crowd are motivated by political power, seeking to grow the Democrat Party base with illegals. They’ll deny it, of course, but they also pretend they........

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