{"id":2571534,"date":"2026-02-19T16:24:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T21:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/there-is-no-moderate-solution-to-the-extreme-immigration-problem-democrats-created\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T16:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T21:26:07","slug":"there-is-no-moderate-solution-to-the-extreme-immigration-problem-democrats-created","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/there-is-no-moderate-solution-to-the-extreme-immigration-problem-democrats-created\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s No &#8216;Moderate&#8217; Fix For Dems&#8217; Extreme Immigration Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthere-is-no-moderate-solution-to-the-extreme-immigration-problem-democrats-created%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2571534&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An opinion piece in The Federalist by Eddie Scarry analyzes The New York Times\u2019 The Daily podcast, which featured a self-described \u201cmoderate\u201d Democrat, Catherine Cortez Masto, discussing immigration.the author recounts Cortez Masto\u2019s assertion that Democrats do not seek to defund ICE but would fund it to traditional levels while securing the border and working with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-trump-pledges-orderly-transition-of-power\/\" title=\"President Trump pledges orderly transition of power\">local law enforcement<\/a> to go after violent criminals under immigration jurisdiction, claiming it is indeed possible to \u201cdo both.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scarry argues this is not a genuine moderate position. He asserts that Democrats had the presidency and control of Congress for portions of the past, yet allowed high levels of illegal entry, which thay describe as <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >open borders fueling human<\/a> and drug trafficking and related crimes. The piece contends that the Democratic stance opposes deportations in practice while invoking due process, and it argues there is no true middle ground\u2014either people leave voluntarily or they are removed. It paints the current situation as a \u201cseismic mess\u201d that voters want cleaned up, notes ongoing DHS funding disputes, and frames Cortez Masto\u2019s comments as part of a broader critique of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-isnt-inflaming-violence-democrats-invited-it-here\/\" title=\"Trump Isn&#039;t Inflaming Violence. Democrats Invited It Here\">democratic immigration policy<\/a>. 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return false;\" title=\"Printer Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\"><span id=\"printfriendly-text2\" class=\"pf-button-text\"><i class=\"mdi mdi-printer\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>The New York Times&rsquo; <em>The Daily<\/em> podcast mistakenly <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/02\/10\/new-york-times-does-the-impossible-and-interviews-a-reasonable-american-on-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interviewed a reasonable voter<\/a> on immigration last week, so it looks like they&rsquo;ve swung hard in the other direction by inviting self-described &ldquo;moderate&rdquo; Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto to balance things out with some old-fashioned anti-American insanity.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. senator from Nevada used the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/19\/podcasts\/the-daily\/ice-democrats-senator-catherine-cortez-masto.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">half-hour episode<\/a> on Thursday to do what all Democrats in Congress do, which is to pretend to be interested in &ldquo;securing the border&rdquo; while <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/02\/05\/deporting-illegal-aliens-isnt-complicated-dont-let-democrats-complicate-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">attempting to complicate<\/a> what it means to enforce immigration law.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2 d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-140327529\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1463670073398-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;So what I&rsquo;ve been talking about with my colleagues &mdash; and this is where Democrats need to be aligned &mdash; is that we are not saying completely defund ICE,&rdquo; she said, apparently unaware that at least five of her Democrat colleagues in Congress <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/democrats-list-support-ice-abolish-alex-pretti-11417311\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">have called to &ldquo;abolish ICE,&rdquo;<\/a> along with other elected Democrat officials. &ldquo;What we are saying is fund them to the level they traditionally were so that we&rsquo;re securing our borders. And we are also working in our communities with local law enforcement to go after the violent criminals under the immigration jurisdiction that they have.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Cortez Masto also said in the interview it was possible to &ldquo;do both&rdquo;&mdash;&nbsp;meaning, to &ldquo;secure our borders&rdquo; and &ldquo;address the human trafficking, the drug trafficking and weapons trafficking that&rsquo;s happening there.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>This is supposed to be the &ldquo;moderate&rdquo; position. But if Democrats can do both, why didn&rsquo;t they? Before Donald Trump was inaugurated, they had the presidency for four years, and in that time, they had full control of Congress for two of them. They instead did the opposite and allowed anyone in through the southern border who could make it there. By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3760400\/illegal-immigrant-population-reached-14-million-under-biden-in-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">some estimates<\/a>, that was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/118\/meeting\/house\/116759\/witnesses\/HMTG-118-IF02-Wstate-RectorR-20240117.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">close to 10 million<\/a> impoverished foreigners flooding into the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>And as Cortez Masto mentioned, it&rsquo;s not just that an obscene number of people were allowed into the country and loaded up with American taxpayer-funded food and housing. It&rsquo;s that the Democrat-supervised open border galvanized whole industries in human and drug trafficking, directly leading to countless deaths, rapings and other depravity.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats right now have instigated <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/02\/12\/democrats-want-to-stop-illegal-alien-deportations-by-shutting-down-dhs-its-that-simple\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a shutdown<\/a> of the Homeland Security department in protest of the Trump administration&rsquo;s mass deportation operation, the thing he was in large part elected to execute. But even with the department overall closed up due to lack of funding from Congress, ICE and border patrol have billions of dollars in separate money to continue normal business. That&rsquo;s why Cartez Masto said in the interview that the administration should &ldquo;divert it to local law enforcement and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-attorney-alina-habba-announces-investigation-into-dem-governor-and-attorney-general\/\" title=\"US Attorney Alina Habba Announces Investigation Into Dem Governor and Attorney General\">state law enforcement&#038;rdquo<\/a>; and instead &ldquo;fund [ICE] to the level they traditionally were.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Ah, yes, wouldn&rsquo;t it be nice to revert back to &ldquo;the level they traditionally were,&rdquo; when Democrats were letting in migrants at a rate approaching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualcapitalist.com\/charted-u-s-net-immigration-by-president-2001-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">three times<\/a> what was &ldquo;traditionally&rdquo; seen.<\/p>\n<p>It apparently needs to be said again that Cortez Masto&rsquo;s party did something extraordinary while Joe Biden was president. What was &ldquo;traditionally&rdquo; done before is no longer going to cut it. But, of course, the Democrat position, including the &ldquo;moderate&rdquo; one, is in opposition to every single deportation of every single illegal alien, which they attempt to conceal by talking about &ldquo;due process&rdquo; and &ldquo;a right way of doing things&rdquo; &mdash; by which they mean &ldquo;endless judicial appeals that ensure no foreigner is ever sent home.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>They created <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/01\/21\/democrats-created-an-unconstrained-immigration-problem-it-requires-an-unconstrained-solution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a seismic mess<\/a> and voters opted to have it cleaned up. There&rsquo;s no easy way to do it. There&rsquo;s nothing that can &ldquo;traditionally&rdquo; be done. There&rsquo;s no &ldquo;moderate&rdquo; option. Either the people in the country leave voluntarily, or they&rsquo;re removed by force.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">      Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0FR8XCMYC\">Traitors: The Democrat Party&rsquo;s Collapse into Anti-American Filth<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-30 bdr-top-bold-black\">\n<div class=\"row g-0 align-items-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6\">\n<div class=\"article-author-profile d-flex align-items-center justify-content-center justify-content-md-start\">\n<div class=\"article-author-details\">\n<div class=\"label-md\">Eddie Scarry<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author-twitter label-sm d-flex align-items-center mt-10\">             <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter me-5\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>             <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Visit on Twitter<\/span>            <a 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