Lefts hysteria over Trumps mass-deportation plan turns off the rest of us and boosts HIM

Donald Trump is a man of many talents, and the greatest of them is his uncanny ability to get his opponents to overreach.For nearly a decade now, the president-elect has benefited from the left’s Boy-Who-Cried-Wolf syndrome.Their wailing over even the most unobjectionable of his words and deeds has rendered many a casual observer deaf to his very real faults.The latest, but far from the last, manifestation of this phenomenon is the hand-wringing over Trump’s promise to carry out “mass deportations.”After four years of neglect at the southern border, Trump ran for the White House on a pledge not only to reinstate order there, but to remove those the Biden administration allowed to stay in the country illegally.Polls suggest that his supposedly hard-line stance on this question is not just popular, but enormously so.A CBS News/YouGov survey of registered voters over the summer found that 62% of Americans supported “a new national program to deport all undocumented immigrants currently living in the US illegally.”That number included 53% of Hispanic voters, with whom Trump made historic electoral gains just a couple of weeks ago.Most Americans recognize that there is nothing at all offensive about the idea of removing those who break the law to enter the country.After all, what’s the alternative?If the penalty for illegal entry doesn’t match the crime, there’s no incentive not to skip the line; anything less than deportation constitutes a de facto reward.An immigration system that rewards bad actors for cheating it, while punishing good ones for adhering to it, is no system at all.Moreover, the costs of runaway illegal immigration are just far too high to continue to pay.The heinous crimes committed by people who never should have been here in the first place stand out, of course.That’s why even Barack Obama, the father of DACA, boasted about deporting such monsters.But all illegal immigration drives down wages for citizens, while providing opportu...