Byron York: Trump Yields On Immigration Enforcement

There has long been a deep divide between the parties on deportation policy. For many Republicans, if a person is in the United States illegally, in violation of federal immigration law, that’s enough for that person to be removed. For many Democrats, if that same person is in the country illegally, but — after committing the crime of entering illegally — has not committed any additional crimes, that person should be allowed to stay. That disagreement is at the core of the current fight over the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement. In the first year of the administration, federal agents famously pursued the “worst of the worst,” going after illegal immigrants who not only entered the country illegally but went on to commit heinous crimes while here. Republicans argued, convincingly, that those people should never have been allowed to stay in the country long enough to commit new crimes.

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