DeSantis's latest appeal to MAGA tops Trump in performative cruelty

[Nevilledog]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/27/desantis-immigration-border-plan-trump-maga/

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As president, Donald Trump separated migrant families, forced asylum seekers back into Mexico and built hundreds of miles of border barriers. The border remained chaotic and the migrants kept coming, yet MAGA ideology continues to hold that the “crisis” can be solved with just the right mix of cruel deterrence, tough enforcement and — of course — more walls.

That disconnect helps explain Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s radical new plan to secure the border, which he rolled out Monday. The plan is meant to propel him to Trump’s right on a leading MAGA issue. But DeSantis’s blueprint contains a bunch of warmed-over ideas — mass deportations, draconian efforts to limit asylum-seeking and legal immigration, even an end to birthright citizenship — that Trump already tried to execute, yet could not.

The fundamental promise of DeSantis’s GOP presidential primary campaign is that he’d execute the MAGA agenda far more competently than Trump. But there’s a reason Trump largely failed in controlling the border, and it has little do with competence or “toughness.”

Rather, it’s that presidents lack the authority to close down legal immigration in any substantial way, and however harsh their enforcement gets, it simply doesn’t dissuade migrants from coming, including illegally, and settling here successfully.

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[MOMFUDSKI]

1. The little man

in the high heels is lacking an escalator.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

2. They fade into insignificance

Next to Nosferatu Stephen Miller’s plan to rocket them from Reaper drones before they even get there.

[Buns_of_Fire]

3. The ball's in Rump's court now...

So he's obliged to call Little Boots' bet -- and raise him, of course. He's already got Miller planning on using drones, so I wonder what the next escalation will be.

[Blue Owl]

4. He's really pudding it all out there

And he's really hoping tRump's MAGAts will follow him like this penguin:

[Johonny]

5. It's the type of sound policy that leads to pool cleaners

Being shot by the people that hired them to clean their pool. Florida the shoot first use brain second, if at all, state.