Imagine Donald Trump winning a Nobel Peace Prize

I’m pretty sure no Democrat in good standing will praise President Donald J. Trump for flip-flopping on illegals.

Some of the illegals, anyway. 

Since I am not a Democrat in good standing, I will. His was not a bad first step.

Was Trump going TACO?

In case you’ve been out of touch, that stands for Trump Always Chickens Out, and was devised mostly to ridicule his U-turns on tariffs. 

Yes, I know true MAGA heads say every reversal was pre-planned, part of an exquisite strategy by a man who modestly calls himself a “stable genius.”

The reversal I am referring to here  is Trump’s message last week that “changes are coming” to protect agricultural and hotel workers  from enforcement by ICE. 

Why? Because he was hearing from those industries that mass deportations would decimate their workforce. Typical of Trump, he often goes with the last opinion he hears.

However, the Washington Post reported Tuesday that Trump’s social media post would be ignored: “There will be no safe spaces for industries who harbor violent criminals or purposely try to undermine ICE’s efforts,” Tricia McLaughlin, an assistant secretary for DHS, said Monday. “Worksite enforcement remains a cornerstone of our efforts to safeguard public safety, national security and economic stability.” 

ICE will disobey the boss? Tuesday, on Fox News, another ICE official said its policy remains unchanged. 

But could change after I post this around 5 p.m. 

Let’s be clear: Trump ran on a platform to eliminate all illegals, starting with the “bad hombres,” the worst of the worst. There is overwhelming support  for deporting them.

In a recent column I cited a poll that reported that 80% of Americans approve of deporting foreign felons. But that means 20% didn’t. Who the hell are these lunatics? 

Not Republicans, I’ll bet.

During the campaign, Trump’s deportation policy — close the border, throw them out — had a heavy majority of approval from Americans who had it up to here with Joe Biden’s Open Borders. Not that he called it that, it was just the effect of his good-intentioned lunacy.

And don’t try to exonerate Biden, not when illegals were pounding on our border gates wearing T-shirts, in English, appealing to him.

I am for sealing the border, and I am for deportations, but …  I know there was no chance Trump could deport what he says are 21 million illegals let in on Biden’s watch. A more realistic figure might be 10 million, but there is no way he could deport that number in four years. That would be 2.5 million a year and no one has ever come close to that number.

And, not to brag, before it all began I predicted that once the American public — most of whom are decent, caring people — started seeing the images of bedraggled people, regular workers, being manacled and put on aircraft, their mood would swing. And, aided by the mistakes ICE has made, and legacy media’s constant reports of “fearful immigrant communities,” it has swung. Trump’s approval ratings on immigration are about 50-50 and falling.

So what do we do now?

Maybe someone will come up with a new idea, and I have presented one, https://www.stubykofsky.com/reprise-a-5-point-plan-to-solve-the-illegal-migrant-mess/ which combines justice and mercy, one that allows illegals to get on a path to legal status, but not citizenship.

Being denied citizenship is their punishment for breaking our laws, and prevents them from being a political football. Many Republicans, including Trump, with no evidence, insist all the illegals are Democratic voters.

They are not.

Back to the top — if Trump now believes that some illegals have earned the right to stay, maybe he can be brought around to the idea that all (who have not broken any laws while living here) should be allowed to stay.

If he can cut the Gordian knot of the immigration nightmare, who knows, he could be in line for a Nobel Peace Prize, which is awarded for conflict resolution. Could that actually happen? Is it more unlikely than he being elected President — twice?

As he likes to say, we ‘ll see.

[Full disclosure: The woman with the taco doll in the top picture is my daughter.]