Francis X. Maier, First Things
Thursday, October 23, 2025
One can reasonably criticize the Trump administration’s current deportation efforts as too broad and too blunt. Along with arresting gang members, traffickers, murderers, and rapists, they sweep up innocent, undocumented immigrants who pose no criminal threat, and many of whom contribute as much to this country as they gain from it. But those same ugly removal efforts were inevitable. They were made so by a catastrophic border collapse under the Biden administration, and the failure by both of our political parties over the past two decades to produce workable immigration reform.
