It’s unnecessary to say who “they” are, which is a telling thing. It means everyone knows and everyone understands that the people referred to are immigrants who have no right to be here.
Broad understanding can metastasize into complacency, which makes it more important, not less, to repeat again and again — they are here illegally. This fact has been converted into a contentious assertion by a sustained left-wing campaign against the very notion of statehood, and by the wholesale abandonment of immigration enforcement by the unlamented former president, Joe Biden.
As a nation, we have come to talk too often about the presence of 15 million to 20 million foreign lawbreakers among us as though their sheer numbers and ubiquity justify themselves. But to
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