The gnashing of teeth and tearing of hair have begun.
Trump-haters in newsrooms are sounding the alarm about the anticipated separation of families under “Operation Aurora,” the mass-deportation of illegal aliens that president-elect Donald Trump promises and which 58% of Americans support, according to an Oct. 16 Marquette University survey.
“If Trump gets his way, his deportation program threatens to rip families apart,” Nicole Narea warns in a Nov. 8 Vox column. A Denver Post editorial went so far as to compare Trump’s plan to FDR’s effort “to round up foreign-born Japanese Americans during World War II” and called it “a clear nod to the white supremacists backing his campaign.”
Here is my free advice to foreign citizens who want both the American dream and family cohesion: Enter legally.
My sainted parents wed in 1960. Two years later, they…