When former President Donald J. Trump rode down his golden escalator on June 16. 2015, in his New York City Trump Tower, the President descended to dominate national politics. Riding a populist wave of discontent in the establishment of primarily white working-class voters, the former President won the Presidency in 2016, and the Republican nomination for President three cycles in a row now. Sustaining through 91 felony charges, a media apparatus targeted against him and two assassination attempts the whole journey comes down to today. With the nation facing the existential threats of mass migration, deindustrialization and loss of global hegemony it is paramount that Trump regain the Presidency, and by that extension, you, the reader must vote for him as well to put America first.
On the issue of migration, President Trump has historically ran on an immigration restrictionism agenda on both the front of illegal and legal immigration. The current administration, allied with Vice President Kamala Harris as the “border czar” (being tasked by the Biden administration to address the migration crisis) regarding the massive influx of illegal migration in the southern border, has allowed at least 10 million illegal aliens entry into our country. The administration has shown a total lack of initiative to secure the border, pointing to a failed piece of legislation as an excuse for not sealing the border, yet the President has the power to seal the border. Quite to the contrary, they openly prevent the border from being secure, as pointed to a stand down between Texas national guard and federal law enforcement regarding Texas’s use of barbed wire on the border. Illegal immigration is inherently wrong as it demonstrates blatant disregard of American law on the part of the immigrants and the administration tolerating them. Despite this, illegal migration makes Americans less safe. Between anecdotal cases such as Laken Riley, a 22-year-old college student who was murdered by an illegal immigrant, or the release of an illegal immigrant who raped a 14 year old Nantucket girl, it is clear the migrants do not show respect for our citizens. According to the Center for Immigration Studies, since 2011 illegal immigrants have accounted for over half a million criminal offenses, and those are only the ones who were caught. To rectify the issue of illegal migration, President Trump has promised to both enforce the border by increasing security using the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to use the military to protect the border and erecting a wall alongside the southern border. To address the migrants already in the country the President has promised to engage in the “largest deportation effort in American history” greater than since President Eisenhower. If you want a safe America, vote Trump.
Under the current political regime, the working class has been shafted by the elite on three fronts: immigration, de-industrialization and trade. Mass migration transfers wealth from the working class to the managerial class by devaluing labor according to Harvard Professor George J. Borjas. Furthermore, since Clinton, the national conversation has been pro-free trade. The left has coveted this with North American Free Trade Agreement, which lost American workers nearly 5 million jobs and President Barack Obama’s planned Trans-Pacific Partnership. These jobs went to China, supporting their meteoric rise as a manufacturing state, premised by the free trade initiative. However, Trump changed the conversation on trade, drawing attention to the long-forgotten rust belt white working class who won him his 2016 victory. Trump instituted billions in tariffs to make American goods more competitive, and even when the Biden administration attempted to remove them they put them back because they were so effective. Trumps most long-lasting implications will be the protectionist message, and he will take it a step further in an interest to protect and grow American industry. Vice President Harris has been running against Trumps tariffs and may remove the current ones, so if you wish to protect American jobs and industry, vote Trump.
Finally, the Biden/Harris administration has been a disaster for foreign policy and American global hegemony. After Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine, the U.S. exhausted its control over Russia by instituting embargos on Russian goods. In response the two greatest Eastern powers of Russia and China formed an informal alliance against Western political and economic interests. This is the biggest threat to U.S. hegemony as China begins to expand influence with its belt and road initiative, encouraging both Eurasian state and countries all over the globe to align their interests with China in exchange for infrastructure investment. This alliance happened as a result of Biden’s instigation of the Ukraine war by promising NATO entry. Biden has sustained this conflict with $175 billion in arms support and has troops on the ground in Ukraine. Biden has escalated this conflict and pushed our adversaries closer to each other, Trump on the other hand would end this destructive conflict and bring order to the world, reassuring Russia’s place in a U.S. led hegemony, not putting it at risk. Furthermore, Trump has placed a limit on support of Israel’s interest in the middle east by pledging not to engage in conflict with Iran. If you want to end war, vote Trump.
This election will be so consequential for the future of American posterity. The existential threats of global conflict, invasion of mass migration and the capitulation of American industry all hang on the success of the Trump campaign. In order to take your country back, in order to put America first and in order to make America great again, please, today go vote for Trump.
“If you want a safe America, vote Trump.”
No acknowledgement of how incredibly unsafe a mass deportation effort would make this country if it’s to be as big as Trump says it is. Also, incredibly irresponsible if not downright disingenuous for you to use two anecdotal cases of illegal immigrants attacking Americans and then follow it up with “since 2011 illegal immigrants have accounted for over half a million criminal offenses”. If your point is that they’re violent and assault Americans, find data on specifically that, because OBVIOUSLY, illegal immigrants are going to account for criminal offenses because being an illegal immigrant is a criminal offense. Also if you intend to make this point i’d suggest finding some data that looks at illegal immigrant violent crime as a percentage of ALL violent crime, not just raw numbers over a span of 13 years.
It also seems that in this article you’ve used the terms “illegal immigrants” and “migrants” interchangeably. maybe this explains your inability to find convincing data, but they are absolutely not the same thing. The use of the terms interchangeably suggests at least to me that you seem to think they’re not that different, which is highly concerning.
“if you want to end war, vote Trump”
Netanyahu has been hedging his bets on a trump win since he knows he’s likely to basically let him do anything he wants. do you think trump would stand in the way of Israel antagonizing Iran? remember when Trump nearly started a direct war between us and Iran by assassinating Soleimani? To pretend Trump is in some way anti-war is completely ridiculous.
besides, if you think conceding to Putin’s warmongering is in some way an anti-war position, I think you might want to read about history. specifically the history of WW2 in which many people just like you encouraged Europe to make peace with a certain aggressive warmongering dictator because the other option was simply “too bloody”. giving the dictator what he wants without a fight is a terrible idea. It’s obvious Trump’s intentions to abandon Ukraine and give the Russian Federation free rein in eastern Europe isn’t a sophisticated policy position- he just likes Putin!
Incredibly weak case for Trump all around. God help this country if he wins.
Hey Declan, John the author here. They give me a word limit so there’s only so much I can fit in. On your illegal immigrants not causing more crime point, you argument has 2 flaws. First many crimes go unreported because we have no clue who these people are and no way to find them, so a ton of crimes go unreported. Second even if it’s lower, they are crimes happening that shouldn’t have occurred in the first place. Also a deportation effort would be safer for Americans. Many are rapists, murders and drug traffickers. You would suggest we just let these ppl stay here? How is that safer? As far as war with Iran goes, as I mentioned, Trump has pledging against new wars including war with Iran. Also we killed Solomani and what did Iran do?? NOTHING! While Harris would continue the Ukraine war to exacerbate our global hegemony and push Russia closer into the arms of China. If you don’t see the long term implications of their alliance then you are far too near sighted. Incredibly weak rebuttal, very excited for a Trump victory tonight.
Great Article – finally some sense at the Daily Campus
“Illegal immigration is inherently wrong as it demonstrates blatant disregard of American law on the part of the immigrants and the administration tolerating them.” Your “illegal immigration” is people crossing the U.S. border, entering the country without permission. This was how millions of people entered this country from the 1800s til the mid 20th century. I suspect it was your relatives, mine, and many others. The fact that now most of these immigrants/migrants are people of color is an issue for you and the Trump campaign. U.S. foreign, military, and economic policies throughout Latin America are driving people to leave their countries of origin, often at great risk for their personal safety. Until those policies are changed migration to this country won’t stop. “Illegal migration makes Americans less safe” Statistics show that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than U.S. Citizens. https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/undocumented-immigrant-offending-rate-lower-us-born-citizen-rate. Beyond the fact the the mass deportations Trump wants are illegal and immoral they would have a devastating impact on the U.S economy. At least you didn’t parrot the Trump campaign’s racist stereotypes that Haitian immigrants eat pets. His anti-immigrant policies are based on white supremacy and racism.
> Doesn’t even believe in illegal immigration as a concept
> b-b-but Trump’s deportations would be “illegal”
Rules for thee and not for me, eh? Millions of people entering this country, who drive wages down (Borjas) and cost-of-living up (Camarota), who create low-trust, isolated, fractious communities (Putnam), who strain our schools (Doan et al.), our emergency services (even Eric Adams admits this), our available housing, who contribute to an unprecedented epidemic of deaths of despair across the working-class and the non-college educated, who have coincided with the advent of globalization and the decline of American manufacturing (Case & Deaton), they get to stay just fine; but deportations, oh deportations have to go before a judicial process longer than Trump’s second term itself, a process he would likely lose. Sorry!
I’m not a Trump supporter. I think he’s a con man, a fraud, and a Bill Clinton-era liberal whose political beliefs depend entirely on the last mildly convincing person he spoke to – but regardless, it’s a shame that due to the contours of our democratic system, he won’t have a chance to do what must be done in this country, not just on immigration but a whole array of issues. Unfortunately, conservatism is incompatible with democracy, as Project 2025’s 15% approval rating shows. Edmund Burke was wrong. De Maistre was right.
Let’s hope Trump wins and becomes the American dictator liberals think he is. I, for one, am crossing my fingers, but I think there’s a fat chance in hell it happens.