Suppose a luxury liner with 100 passengers one day discovers there are four stowaways on board.

Would you vote to toss the four overboard, or would you find a way to accommodate these less fortunate, hard-working stowaways?

Now consider, of the roughly 340 million people in the U.S., 14 million are unauthorized.*

As with the ratio of our stowaways to passengers, the number of unauthorized immigrants make up just 4% of our total population.

With the immigration influx down to a trickle, what seems to be the problem?

Well, for starters, our president is a racist.

He thought we should have more immigrants from Norway (white), and less immigration from “all these shithole countries,” Haiti, El Salvador, and African nations (NBC News, Jan 11, 2018).

The bigot-n-chief shared a video clip on social media depicting President Obama and First Lady Michelle as apes (NPR, Feb 7, 2026), claiming that he didn’t know the insult was on the video, but refusing to apologize.

He really has no problem with immigrants, as long as they are white. In the next two years, his administration will aggressively work to admit 108,000 white South Africans into the U.S. as refugees (Reuters, Feb 26, 2026).

During a recent phone interview on Fox’s Brian Kilmeade’s Radio Show, Trump blamed attacks at a university and a synagogue on the two assailants’ genetic makeup (NBC News, 13 Mar, 2026). An echo of the past, when Nazis’ attempted to describe Jews as an inferior race with incriminating traits and dubious characteristics.

Trump and his legislative yes-men want to boost the ICE budget to 18.7 billion for each of the next four years. Money that state and local law enforcement agencies could put to use with much better effect. Enough money to give each agency, all 17,541 of them, one million dollars a year for four years.

Trump announced that ICE would go after the worst of the worst. In reality, 65 percent of those taken into custody by ICE had absolutely no criminal convictions and 93 percent had no violent crime convictions (CATO.org, June 20, 2025).

Of the 172 million people who worked in the U.S. in 2023, 10 million (5.6%) were unauthorized immigrants. Just over 70 percent of all unauthorized immigrants work and pay taxes without representation. No, they are not eligible for SNAP benefits, Social Security, Medicare or non-emergency Medicaid (*PEW Research Center, Aug 21, 2025).

The best response to unauthorized immigration is for Congress to do its job. They need to pass laws that secure our borders, and not allow the president to use shock troops to terrorize the populace. They need to pass legislation that provides a clear, permanent path to citizenship for those in the country. And, yes, deport the real criminals and drug dealers, working within our constitutional limits of search & seizure and due process.

The mid-term elections are near. Republican politicians continue to rage about how illegal immigrants are raping and pillaging the country. Dump the Trump crowd and help preserve our country’s cherished ideals of opportunity, tolerance, justice and compassion.