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Opinion

DEVINE OP-ED: The Dems’ Reveal Their Stance on Illegal Immigration — and True Colors — During Trump’s State of the Union

posted by Hannity Staff - 2.26.26

By Miranda Devine

The Democrats showed their true colors at Tuesday evening’s State of the Union when they failed the president’s test of allegiance to this country.

They are so devoted to illegal migration that they walked straight into his trap.

President Trump asked every lawmaker in the chamber to stand if they believe their primary duty is to protect American citizens rather than illegal migrants.

That should have be a no-brainer.

It is the essence of putting America first.

But the Democrats refused to stand.

“One of the great things about the State of the Union is how it gives Americans the chance to see clearly what their representatives really believe,” Trump said.

“So tonight, I’m inviting every legislator to join with my administration in reaffirming a fundamental principle: if you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support: The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.”

The Republicans all leapt to their feet, but those on the Democrat side of the chamber were glued to their chairs, caught in a moral cul-de-sac their Trump derangement won’t allow them to escape.

“Isn’t that a shame?” said Trump, surveying the seated Dems and milking their humiliation for maximum effect.

“It really is a shame.”

Far-left “Squad” members Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib (who was proudly wearing a “F–K ICE” badge) transferred their shame into incoherent heckling of the president.

No surprise that Democrats are refusing to pass the SAVE (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility) Act that requires proof of citizenship to register to vote and an ID to cast a ballot.

Since it’s a measure with 83% approval in opinion polls, Trump pointed out the only plausible reason Democrats would oppose such popular, common-sense legislation is because their policies are “so bad that the only way they can get elected is to cheat.”

We are left to assume that Democrats’ reject election integrity because they need illegal migration to replenish the store of beholden voters who will overlook their destructive policies in exchange for unlimited handouts and a blind eye to welfare fraud.

Trump’s success at closing the border has been a political liability in some ways, now that illegal migration has dropped off the radar and the Democrat narrative has drawn public sympathy.

But closing the floodgates is only the first step in rescuing the country from the disaster inflicted by Joe Biden and his sinister Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas when they ushered in as many as 20 million illegal aliens, including unknown numbers of psychopaths, rapists, pedophiles, terrorists, gangbangers, fraudsters, drunken drivers and assorted other criminals.

Deporting them is the necessary hard part.

The media regurgitates Democrat lies and cherry-picks flawed research to pretend illegal migrants are more law-abiding than native-born Americans, and justify the violent resistance to ICE enforcement operations that Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger lauded as the highest form of patriotism in her SOTU reply on behalf of her party Tuesday night.

Nothing could get in the way of Spanberger’s fantasies about ICE storm troopers who have “ripped nursing mothers away from their babies . . . sent children, a little boy in a blue bunny hat . . . people who aspire to be Americans” to the gulag.

Yes, Democrats are full of empathy for mythical victims they conjure up in their imaginations.

But when it comes to actual Americans who have been preyed upon by people who never should have entered this country, they are like the three wise monkeys: see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

Story continues over at The New York Post…