Donald Trump’s view on immigration unjust and immoral

Gabriel Robles, Opinions Editor

Constant controversy surrounds the candidacy of a certain TV celebrity running for president.

After hearing a plethora of racist, sexist, and just generally unpresidential statements — specifically concerning his take on immigration — the general consensus surrounding him tends to be pretty unanimous: Donald Trump is not who America needs to lead it for the next four years.

What we could call Trump’s vision of an independent America is simply just that. Independent. America as America was. If that’s not enough to deter people from looking into him as a potential candidate, there is also the fact that he wants to build a triple-layer wall at the border of

Mexico lined with Predator drones that he believes the Mexican government will pay for.

Where exactly is the logic in that? While 60 percent of the immigrants that come to the United States are citizens of Mexico, Mexico just happens to be the only southern border country of the United States and the other 40 percent of immigrants are forced to cross Mexico to get here. Even if deporting every immigrant was plausible and morally OK, suing Mexico for its construction is in no way fair to them.

It would be nice to believe that America is still the sanctuary of a land that it used to be and could take in all the immigrants and give them that sanctuary they have sought. Trump would make it impossible to do so, and would even go as far as advocating for the repeal of the 14th Amendment, ending the almost 150 year concept of birth-right citizenship in the United States.

Furthermore, Trump’s core belief and reason for deporting illegal immigrants

that come to the United States is his assumption that all immigrants are bands of criminals and drug dealers. Not only are immigrants a key force of American economy since its founding, it’s insulting and unjustified to argue that they shouldn’t be here by assuming they all immigrate to sell drugs and poach off welfare, especially when Americans can be more at fault for what Trump blames immigrants for.

Though I understand where Trump’s vision lies, it simply has no good foundational reasons to be the way that it is. Trump’s view on immigration is unjust, immoral, and simply targets the wrong group for the wrong set of reason.