Conservatives Support Trump on Border Security. But are they Leaning Into Compassion on Illegal Immigrants?
It is one of the ironies of our time that the immigration crisis now overwhelming America began with Democrats encouraging people to come, even building an app to ease the process and relying on a manipulated judicial system to allow them to stay, despite contradictions with our laws. Millions took that invitation seriously.
Conservatives recognize this existential threat for what it is and they are backing President Trump’s push to secure the border and remove criminals, whose only goal was to escape justice in their home countries, or spies and terrorists intent on harming us. But some are leaning more compassionate with families, students, workers, and settled neighbors whose goal is only a better life. It seems an emerging view is firm on law and order and gentle with those who respect America.
It just occurs to us at NP, that given that these folks were invited by the United States of America (no matter what bungling idiot of a President Biden made the call to do it), the United States must respect the hopes and efforts of these people, even if we have to ask them to leave.
Why businesses are asking for humane, practical reforms
Conservatives are in some instances responding to economic reality. Business groups warn that fear and disruptions are hollowing out key industries. Rebecca Shi of the American Business Immigration Coalition argued that after securing the border, the next step is to “secure our workforce.” She said long-time residents, Dreamers, farmworkers, and essential workers should be able to “work, pay taxes, and legally come out of the shadows,” while employers gain a stable pipeline of talent.
Leaders from the Comité de 100 connected the dots to the broader economy. Massey Villareal said, “Creating a better America is a bipartisan issue and we certainly need the workforce to do it.” Sam Sanchez urged Republicans and Democrats to “bring common sense to Congress,” noting that more than forty years have passed without meaningful reform. Ramiro Cavazos of the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce called immigration fixes “economic necessities,” saying they are vital to an economy that is not replicating at the level it should. Ana Valdez of the Latino Donor Collaborative highlighted scale, saying Latinos contributed $3.6 trillion to U.S. GDP and that if Latinos were a country they would be the fifth largest economy in the world.
On the ground, conservative business voices are blunt. Former Arizona state senator Bob Worsley reported that some firms have “already lost their entire workforce due to deportation fears.” Andy Johnston of the Grand Rapids Chamber pushed back on the myth that immigrants drain resources, saying immigrants “don’t take tax dollars — they generate them” and “keep our local companies here.”
A conservative blueprint: dignity with enforcement
The DIGNITY Act, led by Representative María Elvira Salazar with bipartisan partners, captures this balance. It pairs tough measures to end illegal immigration with structured, earned legal status for long-settled, law-abiding undocumented immigrants. It mandates nationwide E-Verify, builds and equips the border, raises penalties on traffickers, and replaces catch-and-release with fast, orderly asylum processing in Humanitarian Campuses that aim to resolve claims within 60 days.
For those already here, the bill sets a seven-year Dignity Program requiring background checks, repayment of back taxes, and $7,000 in restitution over seven years, along with steady work and good standing. Participants gain protection from deportation and full work authorization but no access to federal means-tested benefits. Dreamers and DACA recipients receive conditional permanent resident status with a path to adjust through work experience, military service, or higher education. Salazar describes it as “a commonsense solution” where immigrants can earn legal status, “not citizenship,” by working, paying taxes, and contributing. The program’s restitution payments would fund an American Worker Fund that upskills U.S. workers, while an immigration infrastructure levy covers border and processing costs.
This is not blanket amnesty. It is a rules-based path that keeps pressure on the border, redirects enforcement toward criminals, and stabilizes a workforce that employers say is essential.
Faith-rooted conservatives reinforcing compassion
Evangelical leaders have pressed for a humane approach consistent with conservative values. The Evangelical Immigration Table lays out principles that respect the God-given dignity of every person, protect family unity, secure the border, ensure fairness to taxpayers, and establish a path to legal status and citizenship for those who qualify. They call Dreamer protections a moral issue and support a restitution-based legalization for adults who pass background checks and pay fines, explicitly rejecting both mass amnesty and mass deportation.
This faith voice gives conservatives a clear moral framework. It honors the rule of law, insists on secure borders, and protects families who have become part of American communities.
Local standards for humane enforcement
Even at the county level, conservative and mixed bodies are setting expectations for how enforcement should look. In Hays County, Texas, commissioners unanimously passed a resolution urging humane treatment, transparency, and visible identification by officers, with body cameras and clear notification to local leaders when arrests and transports occur. The goal is to protect due process, civil liberties, and public trust while avoiding tactics that create fear among law-abiding workers and families.
Policymakers and advocates on the right are coalescing around a related set of methods. First, mandatory E-Verify and hardening the border are non-negotiable. Second, streamline asylum to end abuse and resolve valid claims rapidly. Third, provide earned legal status with fines, background checks, steady work, and civics standards for law-abiding immigrants who have been here for years. Fourth, deliver permanent protections for Dreamers with a responsible path to citizenship. Fifth, set humane enforcement standards that prioritize criminals, require transparent identification, and keep families intact where the law allows. Finally, tie everything to the needs of the American economy so employers can plan, invest, and grow.
Democrats helped create this crisis by encouraging illegal entry in defiance of our laws. Conservatives are now advancing a firmer, more coherent approach. The priority is to secure the border and get rid of criminals. At the same time, Republicans are proving they are a compassionate party. They are stepping in for students, mothers, veterans’ families, and long-time neighbors. They are listening to businesses and churches that keep communities strong. They are building frameworks like the DIGNITY Act to restore order while honoring human dignity. This is how we counter an existential crisis created by bad policy and still preserve the humanity and consideration due to people who want a better life and respect America.
Let’s investigate this premise,
Biden committed at lese a federal crime of Aiding & Abating an illegal entry into the USA
of Millions of people (who Committed a Crime by entering the country Illegally).
So, both Biden and all Who looked the other way or helped them enter also committed the same crime as Biden.
Now that they’re here we cannot enforce the laws that everyone broke (as well as all the Dollars given to them also illegally) cannot be recovered.
The best We can Do is send them back and spend our moneys on helping Americans Recover from this Atrocity and procicute the criminals in this contry who commited the crimes that have be derstroying this country from within.
The point is that scumbag Biden invited them here, that was an act of the U.S. Government. Yes we need to start getting them back out, but it is no excuse to treat them badly. They are human beings.
You can’t say that Biden committed a crime, because he was President and this is under his purview. Presidents by definition cannot commit Federal Crimes because the President has the power to make exceptions. Was it a tragic attack on the U.S.? Yes. Was it a treasonous act? You could make that case that he should have been impeached. But he wasn’t.
This was a cynical act to create a crisis that the Republicans were expected to solve. But it was effectively an invitation by the U.S. government. And a great many of these immigrants actually have a piece of paper that says they can stay while they wait for the court date many years hence, and it even allows them to fly. Biden gave them an app to make the application for it.
Funny how Joe says Trump immigration policy, dignity and compassion in the same breadth. Nothing say “dignity” better than an unidentified, masked, bastard with a long gun and dressed in full body armor field camo busting through your door on a warrantless, paperless, disappearing of your loved one to a third-world, death-camp, El Salvadorian gulag where people walk in, but never walk out. More on that “dignity” later, as well as where the rubber meets the road: the numbers, you know, those things Joe hates to discuss: dollars, statistics, and science.
One small note first though. Joe says: “A conservative blueprint: dignity with enforcement. The DIGNITY Act, led by Representative María Elvira Salazar with bipartisan partners, captures this balance.” This is not a bald-faced lie, but it’s certainly some spin. First, it’s not a conservative blueprint, it’s a bipartisan compromise and blueprint. Second, it originated during the time of Biden in 2023, not Trump. IMO, it’s a good bill, no need to steal the glory by partisan hackery, better to share, include, versus just taking the credit excluding partner authors. And given the bipartisan approach, you can guarantee inputs across the aisles, as well as with many major House advisory groups. At least, the bill says so, not Joe. Not a BUSTED, but most certainly an error.
Salazar and a Democrat from Texas, Veronica Escobar, BOTH introduced THEIR joint bill. Twas the word “AND” tween the two names Joe. These are the same people, for the same bill, now revised, that was introduced in 2023 and shot down by the 118th House under Republican control. Narrow, but Republican control. Supporters could never beat the House and even get a floor vote. The 118th House was controlled by a narrow majority by Republicans who shot this thing down. Likewise, Republicans shot down Biden’s bipartisan immigration bill in the Senate.
I provide a summary of the Senate and House bills and as my previous tomes have noted, one main solution here is activating E-Verify nationally, which I and this bill support. E-Verify, as I keep telling you, apparently to deaf ear, solves the undocumented worker issue. They just can’t work. Not without problems, but tested, proven, and it works. We would have to do this stupid masked authority circus act in that we would only be chasing criminals, who have committed crimes, and there would be no undocumented workers. Or at least, only under the table like the guys who mow Joe’s lawn.
This is a good bill, a bi-partisan bill, and IF they get E-Verify nationally, Trump could actually meet and make his original promise. The only reason he hasn’t done this already is that IMO, he loves the spectacle, the arena, the blood. It makes for great TV.
*https://www.google.com/search?q=biden%27s%20bipartisan%20immigration%20bill%20versus%20the%20dignity%20act&source=sh/x/gs/m2/5*
Scroll down to the comparison section for a great description and differences with the Biden Senate bipartisan bill. I like the House bill better than Biden’s, it’s got e-verify which is mandatory for me.
But it is, and has been for 3 years, a very bipartisan bill, from the authors to the sponsors. So, stop trying to steal the credit. You can do better. You seem to be very good at “investigate,” and “talking heads,” but extremely weak on “legislate,” the real job of Congress.
This is a frank danger with publishing that which you don’t read. Especially if you get your cliff notes from right-wing rags that don’t practice professional journalism and research. Joe got burned by not double-checking his facts. Again. But not busted imo, just an oops I think. At least until he either doubles-down, deflects, or defends the undeniable and indefensible.
Dunger has all of the answers. Not!!!! So why can’t the wetbacks come here legally? Answer. They know that their presence will make us more vulnerable and dived. But commiecrats want that.
This is a discouraging article. What absolute poppycock! As soon as I can figure out how to unsubscribe, I’m gone.
Howeird Bonkershit: generally speaking, pretty hard to have a discussion when you begin by treating the other person as subhuman and not a person, but dung. Good luck.
Meanwhile, in the adult world: oh my, give credit to bravery as Joe jokingly attempts to cover Trump’s broken promise by suggesting Trump is becoming a kinder, gentler agent of deportation HELL. Good chance Joe’s own base will blow back on this one. Whoops, there’s the first blowback.
First, let’s look at the numbers that Joe lies about. Then, someday, perhaps the rest of the story. Before I start, Joe comments: “it was effectively an invitation by the U.S. government. And a great many of these immigrants actually have a piece of paper that says they can stay while they wait for the court date many years hence, and it even allows them to fly. Biden gave them an app to make the application for it.” He even admits his lie with the cya “effectively and invitation.” Here’ an “effectively” finger to that. The ap was merely an online process to stop them from jumping the border to apply for asylum remotely. And Joe, guess what, even under Trump, asylum seekers get “a piece of paper that says they can stay while…” And yes, Joe, they can still travel like the humans they are. I realize the internet and even the USPS are difficult technologies for Joe to grasp, much less the legal asylum process :>) Oye.
This is one of Joe’s funnier stories starting with his bogus claim: “Democrats encouraging people to come, even building an app to ease the process and relying on a manipulated judicial system to allow them to stay, despite contradictions with our laws.” How? What laws or programs? Prove it.
Biden did not invite anyone, quit the lies. He followed the laws as established by Congress, but for some strange reason did not attempt to override Congress via EO’s, memo’s, etc. Why? By mid-2023, makes no sense at all to me. I can’t explain why Biden did not close it down earlier as he did in mid-2024 with his June 2024 Executive Order which Joe cannot remember. By October of 2024, Biden’s EO had dropped illegal crossings by 78%. Too little, too late, and why he waited is a great question. Joe cannot show “Democrats encouraging people to come,” that’s an whopper. Joe is getting to be a frequent liar as Trump stumbles and Joe returns to Biden as his favorite punching bag. Old. demented, stumbling, drooling Biden, the mastermind that flummoxed and outflanked brainless Republicans at every turn. Which is it Joe, criminal mastermind or Stage 297 Alzheimer’s poster child?
As far as the ap, the concept, stupid as it was, was to have people apply remotely INSTEAD of coming to the US, legal or not, to claim asylum. They even allowed interviews in US offices in foreign countries. Stupid because if you are in fear for your life in your home country, and you go to your local US-asylum location, like the bad guys won’t be watching? Heck, in these places, they probably map your address every time you log on. Was doomed to fail in my book, but is attempting to ease the process and lower border jumping a bad thing? No, except in Joe’s jaded eyes, I guess. And “manipulated judicial system,” what the fuck does that even mean?
Let’s be real. Our immigration problems have been caused by both parties for decades. Caused by Congress not fixing our immigration process for decades. Both parties politic on immigration, always have. YES, Biden screwed the pooch and put the problem over the roof. BUT Biden was well on the way to stopping the crossings, just too little, too late, as in waaaaay late. Hey, he paid the price, you won, you own it all, but instead of making things better, you mostly bitch and moan about us. We ain’t the problem no more. Just get er done, conservative style. But when you come at us with unidentified masked men with body armor and long guns and no warrant, no paperwork, no badges, you will be met as you should be. With the respect you deserve. We will not hold our breadth hoping they will hear Joe’s pleas for a kinder, gentler, deportation invasion.
What’s NP? Journalism 101 says spell it out the first time, especially if it’s arcane or strange. But Joe conveniently forgets his past in order to spin the present trying to make the future look better. Joe says it’s all about the criminals, that’s a lie. The campaign commitment was to remove 14 million undocumented people even though most think only 11 million undocumented are here. Like ObamaCare, when Trump actually got to the Oval, he realized the impossibility of his promise so he reconfigured it to a priority on criminals. Why? Because the folks in our criminal system could be more easily found, we had their addresses and they might even show up at court. Those without criminal cases, the vast majority of undocumented are much harder to find. Biden, Obama, basically did the same thing with pretty good success rates and without the horrors Trump is unleashing.
But as I have said many times: no way in hell will Trump ever get close to his promise of removing 14,000,000 people. At his current rate, he is a total and complete failure to reach his promised goal. And you can’t just move the goal posts Joe.
This entire story is based on a lie.
Let’s be blunt what Trump got you to vote for: 14,000,000 gone in four years is 300,000 per month. By September, DHS says 400,000 deported in eight months. At that rate, Trump will meet his promise in a couple of decades. I think their current goal is 3,000 per month. I think they are gonna need a bigger boat.
Now they have a new goal of 1,000,000 per year. To do this, the government needs more agents, more facilities. Somehow 4 million during the Trump administration as a goal seems smaller than 11 or 14 million. Let’s face the truth: whatever they deport will become the stated goal. And Joe will believe it, hook, line, and stinker. They also play a new game, the self-deported numbers that no one can see, no one can count, and they tout that 1.6M have self-deported.
Oh yeah, of the 11 or 14 million undocumented, ICE had 450,000 with criminal records or in the court systems as being deported. Although there’s innocents and minor crimes and some with butterfly “gang” tats mixed in. Trump is not really particular. And remember, this could be traffic tickets and other misdemeanors too. Somehow reaching Joe’s “priority” of criminals rings hollow as everyone knows they are taking anything that moves, criminals, dreamers, non-criminals, whatever. You don’t go to arrest folks in the strawberry fields looking for criminals. Or at the hairdresser. Or at the Home Depot parking lot. Joe’s bogus lie flies in the face of reality. Or does he not see all the undocumented returned from jail, or stopped in transit, because they are actually LEGAL? He has deported legal immigrants, he has deported those under the protection of our asylum laws, he has broken up families, he has sent innocents to death camps they will die in.
No, the criminal “prioritization” was not part of Trump’s campaign promise, he made that after he reached the Oval and saw the impossibility of reaching his ridiculous promise that Joe ate up with fork and spoon: “please sir, can I have some more?” And no matter what you’ve done, you deserve habeas corpus and other basic human rights with hold as our patriotic duty to man and the law which is the foundation of America’s vision. You don’t deserve the cruel and unusual punishment of a death camp gulag or being dropped off in a war zone where you don’t even speak the language. How is that compassionate Joe. Or even human.
There’s a new form of political violence thanks to the opportunity that ICE and Trump deportation policies offer. It’s a strange new dance with special costumes and customs like masking. I’m calling it “The Strand” as in: “There’s a new sensation, a fabulous creation, a danceable solution, to our deportation revolution. Do The Strand, love.”
Ah, what a great song, try YouTube, look for The Strand by Roxy Music or Bryan Ferry. It’s what “Do the Twist” was to the 60’s, The Strand did it for the 70’s and today offers us a new way to express our true inner feelings.
Today, The Strand is being done in apparent honor of our formally respected boys in blue. Well, uh, I guess they don’t wear blue anymore. Or even uniforms. Or even badges. Actually, more like unmarked, masked, jack-booted thugs, either in black or camo, not blue anymore. Even hard to tell if they are boys, you know, with the masks, face shields, acting like pussies, and all. The Strand; it’s so easy to do. All The Strand just takes a mask (and since you stopped wearing them for your health, you gots plenty to help you hide); you don’t need no stinking id, no flipping warrant, to look legit and then be able to disappear those with brown skin or perpetrate any other crime you are into. Robbery, rape, kidnapping, assault: it’s an old dance from the early 70’s, easy to learn, and now everyone is doing The Strand.
“Do it on the tables, Quaglino’s place or Mabel’s? Slow and gentle, sentimental, all styles served here, Louis Seize he prefer, Laissez-faire Strand.” That’s right, they even do The Strand in France or the City of Brotherly Love.
“A 54-year-old man impersonated an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent during a robbery in Northeast Philly earlier in June.” “On June 8, Rosado entered the automobile shop and announced he was an ICE agent and that he “was going to take undocumented employees into custody.”” He dressed the part, looked the part, that’s easy, it’s The Strand. And then he zipped tied em up to raid the cash register. I wonder if he was singing:
“They’re playing our tune, by the pale moon, we’re incognito, down the Lido. And we like the Strand.”
“ICE, FBI and various other federal, state and local agencies have successfully used ‘ruses’ to lure targets to locations where the arrests were made with the least amount of danger to both the officers and targets.” Both the law and the unlawful do The Strand. It’s even international. All of GAZA does The Strand. Everyone is doing The Strand.
“If you feel BLUE, look through Who’s Who, see La Goulue and Nijinsky, do the Strandsky.”
“The man, Fernando Diaz, was arrested by Huntington Park police after officers said they found a loaded gun and official-looking documents with Department of Homeland Security headings in his SUV, according to NBC Los Angeles.” Wow, even California Latino’s do The Strand. And it happened overnight as soon as Trump started to knock, knock, knocking down our doors.
“A week after Trump took office, a man in South Carolina was arrested and charged with kidnapping and impersonating an officer, after allegedly presenting himself as an Ice officer and detaining a group of Latino men.” ““Now don’t be speaking that pig-Latin in my f**king country!” Johnson says, knocking the phone out of his hand.” Is that ICE or just icy? I mean “pig-Latin? Uckfay hattay hitsay Iay aysay.
It’s a national phenomena. North, South, East, and West do The Strand.
“In February, two people impersonating Ice officers attempted to enter a Temple University residence hall.” They scampered off and were arrested for tormenting a local business. They said they were sent by Trump.
“In North Carolina, another man, Carl Thomas Bennett, was arrested after allegedly impersonating an Ice officer and sexually assaulting a woman. Bennett reportedly threatened to deport the woman if she did not comply.” He had a business card with a badge on it. It’s NC so she has 20 weeks to abort the ICE baby if there is one. Thank God, or the Devil, depending on your Strand on the issue.
“In April, a man in Indiantown, Florida, was arrested for impersonating an Ice officer and targeting immigrants. Two men reported to the police that the man had performed a fake traffic stop, and then asked for their documents and immigration status.”
“Do the Strand love, when you feel love, it’s the new way, that’s why we say: do the Strand.”
Reap what you sow. Do you consider ICE raids to be political violence like police brutality is considered as political violence? Discuss.
Another secret from the most transparent administration in history is show-me-the-money. According to WIKI: “In 2024, the American Immigration Council estimated the cost of conducting a million deportations at $967.9 billion in federal government spending over a decade.
Deportations are a lucrative business and the WSJ reported in May 2025, how billions are spent each year in detaining people, in frequently moving them from one of the one hundred US detention centers to the next, and in providing toiletries, food and telecommunication services. In FY 2023 enforcement and removal operations alone cost $4.5 billion.
After it was announced that Trump was utilizing military planes to deport individuals, it was estimated that each flight cost over $850,000. Each of the recent deportation flights had about 80 people on board.
The BBB has an extra $170B for immigration support. Trump’s deficit in 2025 is already higher than Biden’s 2024 deficit and Biden’s 2024 was his highest in three years. We are sucking hind tit on the money and no one is even looking. IF the courts stop the tariffs, return the taxation without representation taxes, then our deficit will go through the roof as Trump is financing his spending by this secret tax. FYI: the day that happens, buy Walmart, Target or Home Depot; they will be massive winners of profit.
Those are the numbers.
There was never any chance of Trump meeting his promise to remove 11 or 14 million. NONE. PERIOD. After he ascended the throne, Trump realized how stupid his promise was. So he reset the 14-million-deportations clock to just criminals which lowers the total from 14 million to 400,000. How special to move the goal posts when you can’t get it into the end zone for the score. Trump has already admitted he beat the new number, meaning the obvious truth based on Trump’s own reporting is that 75% of those deported are NOT CRIMINALS.
BUSTED.
Does anyone know what timie it is? Does anyone know what’s really happening?