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Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal went to Danbury the other day to meet privately with people whose relatives had been arrested in the recent sweep through the city and nearby towns by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. About a hundred people were arrested. The senator also held a public meeting to hear complaints about the arrests from municipal officials and advocates for illegal immigrants.

Deploring the arrests, Blumenthal said: "Cruelty is the point. Fear and terror are the goal. I don't recognize America in what I saw in Danbury."

Cruelty, fear, and terror? Holding people to account for any lawbreaking often seems cruel to them and their relatives and causes fear and terror. Most law conveys the fear of breaking it; otherwise it would be meaningless.

But the arrests in the Danbury area had a bigger objective than cruelty even if it wasn't obvious to the senator. It was to apprehend and remove people in the country illegally. 

After all, if the objective had been only cruelty, the ICE agents could have arrested anyone.

G.K. Chesterton recognized the sort of problem here. "As is common in most modern discussions," he wrote in 1910, "the unmentionable thing is the pivot of the whole discussion." 

What is unmentionable by the senator and the advocates for the people arrested by ICE -- what is the pivot of the discussion -- is simply whether the arrested people were in the country illegally, and, if so, whether the law should be enforced against them. 

Fortunately for the senator and the advocates for the people arrested by ICE, most journalists don't consider those points to be worth addressing either. Most journalists are interested only in publicizing what seems like the cruelty of enforcing law they dislike.

Addressing the central points from the start would change the subject from the profound sadness felt by the people who recklessly gambled that the United States would never enforce immigration law against them -- people who bet their lives and even those of the spouses they acquired and the children they had after entering illegally and who lost that bet.

Connecticut is full of little groups working furiously to obstruct and sabotage immigration law enforcement -- engaged in a form of nullification and secession that is essentially treason -- but at least they are candid about wanting open borders and forgiveness of all immigration violations. 

By contrast Blumenthal and other Democratic officials in the state, especially Governor Lamont and Attorney General William Tong, seem to want to fudge the issue -- to leave illegal immigrants in a netherworld, some with flimsy or temporary exemptions from enforcement, or to put them on "a path to citizenship," the euphemism for a mass amnesty for their lawbreaking. For with an estimated 14 million illegal immigrants in the country, any normal review of their suitability for regular legal admission would take decades.

Blumenthal and other Democrats acknowledge that the immigration system is "broken" but don't acknowledge that repairing it -- giving normal review to everyone seeking admission -- is impossible without deporting most illegal immigrants and telling them to get back in line because there can be no reward for breaking the law.

Nor do the senator and other Democrats address the question of who broke the immigration system and why. 

For the system was broken during a Democratic national administration, an administration that just shrugged and claimed falsely that controlling the border was impossible, when it actually didn't want the border controlled at all but wanted instead for illegal immigrants to locate in Democratic "sanctuary" cities and states, where, as constitutionally required, the census would count them for purposes of congressional and state legislative districting. That would increase the number of safely Democratic districts and alter the country's political composition in favor of the party that broke the system -- all without letting illegal immigrants vote. Their mere presence would change everything.

If Blumenthal didn't recognize America in Danbury amid the recent immigration law enforcement there, it's because his party's idea of America is no immigration enforcement at all.

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