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Ninehoursbeforethepolls closed, the House speaker surfaced in Washington to assure everyone that he and his fellow Republicans don't share Trump's affin- ity for sliming racial minori- ties. Ryan was upset that the likely Republican nominee had failed to disavow David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan. "If a person wants to be the nominee of the Repub- lican Party, there can be no evasion and no games," Ryan said. "This party does not prey on people's prejudices. We appeal to their highest ideals. This is the party of Lincoln." I'm glad I wasn't sipping coffee when I heard Ryan say that, because the liquid would've exited through my nose. I thought of Keith Rich- ard, who wrote in his rock n' roll memoir that life's absur- dities are best handled with "legs-in-the-air laughter." "This party does not prey on people's prejudices ..." Is Ryan kidding or what? Because it's empirical fact that his party has been prey- ing on prejudice for the past 50 years. Donald Trump is different only in degree. He has merely ditched the dog whistle and stripped away the code words. Trump's mission to Make America Great Again — or, more accurately, Make Amer- ica White Again — is rooted in the party's longstanding practice of playing on whites' hostility toward minorities. Political columnist Robert Novak covered a GOP con- fab in 1963, and presciently wrote that "a good many, per- haps a majority of the party's leadership, envision substan- tial political gold to be mined in the racial crisis by becom- ing in fact, if not in name, the white man's party." In 1964, when nomi- nee Barry Goldwater voted against the landmark Civil Rights Act, he inspired mil- lions of white southern Dem- ocrats, led by Strom Thur- mond, to join the GOP. Richard Nixon successfully played to white voters with his 1968 "southern strategy," using coded phrases like "law and order." As Nixon said at the time, after watching a TV ad that featured footage of ghetto riots, "Yep, this hits it right on the nose ... it's all about law and order and the damn Negro-Puerto Rican groups out there." Nixon aide John Ehrlichman later said, "The subliminal appeal to the anti-black vote was always present in Nixon's statements and speeches." Decades passed, but the formula stayed the same. Ronald Reagan talked about "states' rights" and "wel- fare queens," and everyone knew what he meant. George H. W. Bush won the presi- dency in 1988 with help from the notorious "Willie Hor- ton" ad, which featured a black convict who'd raped a white woman after being fur- loughed in Massachusetts. The governor at the time was Mike Dukakis, Bush's Demo- cratic opponent. I could go on indefinitely, but let's fast-forward to 2012, when Paul Ryan was on the presidential ticket. Late that summer, Romney-Ryan claimed in a TV ad that Pres- ident Obama was gutting the federal law (which was a lie — Obama kept the work re- quirement while ceding more power to the states) that re- quired welfare recipients to find work: "Under Obama's plan, you wouldn't have to work and wouldn't have to train for a job. They just send you your welfare check, and welfare-to-work goes back to being plain old welfare." So, according to Romney- Ryan, Obama was gonna let "those people," the takers, loaf around with their wel- fare checks. It wasn't hard to read that code. White voters were free to conjure the vi- sual imagery. I don't remember Paul Ryan ever distancing himself from the campaign's racist dog whistling. Yet he had the gall yesterday to harrumph about Trump — and to insist, in defiance of factual reality, that Republicans "do not prey to people's prejudices. We ap- peal to their highest ideals." He seems to have convinced himself that Trump is an out- lier, whereas, in truth, Trump has risen from the same swamp where Republicans have long chosen to swim. Trump didn't say any- thing incendiary on Tuesday night, but when Ryan's name came up, the GOP frontrun- ner said, "I'm sure I'm going to get along great with him. And if I don't, he's going to have to pay a big price." Ah. There's the thug we know and loathe. DickPolmanisthenational political columnist at NewsWorks/WHYY in Philadelphia (newsworks. org/polman) and a "Writer in Residence" at the University of Philadelphia. Email him at dickpolman7@ gmail.com. Editorial Trump is GOP racism without the dog whistle Cartoonist's take It appears that what I con- sider to be common sense re- garding the replacement of Mr. Allen for ed- ucation super- visor is likely to occur: The vot- ers had their say in an open elec- tion in which Al- len's qualifica- tions were fraudu- lently overstated, to the point of disqualification from holding the office. At the very least, had the voters been fully informed of the facts, they would most certainly have cho- sen Harley North outright, rather than as a close also-ran. Last summer's column pro- vided many weeks worth of valid, well-researched and sup- portable analysis of the delete- rious role of illegal immigration on America's economy and na- tional and state budgets. Even the arguably laudable legal im- migration system was shown to have a depressing affect on wages for workers in numer- ous sectors. The impact on elec- toral representation was me- ticulously presented and even used the words of Democrat of- ficeholders to prove that Demo- crats expect, and rely on, immi- grants to win national and local elections. Local, you ask? Witness the latest effort to turn non-citizens into voters in New York City, where an estimated 1.3 million reside. Yes, "New York values" apparently extend to allowing and encouraging non-citizen voting in municipal elections. Unions are hell-bent-to-leather to turn millions of foreign- born, legal permanent residents (LPRs or Green Card holders) into voting citizens by Novem- ber, in a thinly veiled play for newly-minted Democrat voters. I applaud columnist Susan Stamper Brown for writing, and the editor for printing, last Sat- urday's "For Democrats, immi- gration is about winning elec- tions." A highlighted segment went, "To the left, it seems im- migration is nothing more than a game, and illegal immigrants are the pawns they use to ma- nipulate the system to win elec- tions." There is no driving legal guideline that supports an allo- cation of 40 percent to legal im- migrants from Mexico and Cen- tral America. It is observable that they come from authoritar- ian political cultures that place relatively little value on our Bill of Rights or other rules of American self-governance. The current Republican front-runner is Mr. Donald Trump, whose "bonafides" in the minds of many supporters include a hard line approach to immigration—particularly a "deportation-centered" policy for the estimated 15 million or so illegals. His promise of hav- ing a wall built with Mexican money has drawn cheers and jeers. I say that simply placing a sizable transfer fee on all of the money sent by Mexican nation- als in America to their south- ern relatives would easily do it. Were Trump, or any Repub- lican, to accomplish that feat, they would be applauded by most Americans, their children and their children's children for having protected America's bor- der, abundance and political freedom from alien, malign in- fluences, and from budgetary benefit drains in perpetuity. Then we find that Trump has expressed "flexibility" on im- migration issues. It turns out that his Mar-a-Lago Club re- sort was staffed with only 17 American citizens, out of hun- dreds of openings that went to foreigners. It turns out that he was fined for employing il- legal aliens in the building of Trump Tower. Now we find that "Trump Tower was Funded by Rich Chinese Who Invest Cash for Visas," (Bloomberg.com, Jesse Drucker). Here is my offered solution: Whereas Americans and Amer- ica's legal immigrants have no justifiable faith that our immi- gration laws are being faith- fully enforced without prefer- ences, the following is a com- mon sense proposal to reinforce and renew said laws: All who have either entered, or remain in, America illegally are subject to deportation with- out notice upon contact with law enforcement at any level. To that end, all law enforcement officers at federal, state or lo- cal levels are deputized to in- quire of any person contacted whether they reside here le- gally—all other laws, regula- tions or court decisions not- withstanding. All who are illegally present in America and who have com- mitted any violation of law, mi- nor traffic citations excepted, have no legal or judicial re- course against immediate de- portation. Said deportation shall be enforced upon serving prison sentences with no allow- ance for probation or parole. Upon registration with fed- eral authorities, illegal residents who have no criminal violations beyond minor traffic citations can, by admitting and agreeing to the above, be allowed no lon- ger than 2 years to leave Amer- ica. Illegal residents not com- plying with said registration will be subject to immediate de- portation upon contact with any officer of the law. Regis- tered illegal residents waive any legal recourse to protest 1) their 2-year reprieve from deporta- tion and 2) their immediate de- portation upon violation of any law beyond traffic citations. Illegal residents who are oth- erwise law-abiding may apply for legal permanent resident status (LPR/"green card"), dur- ing the balance of their 2-year reprieve; however, said reprieve shall not be extended. Ille- gal residents qualifying for re- prieve may, upon authorization by Congress, receive $2000 per family member for the purpose of relocation to their country- of-origin; those eligible for re- location funds waive any legal rights against the removal and relocation process and must pursue their LPR card from abroad. The above proposals can 1) restore the faith that Ameri- cans deserve to have in immi- gration law enforcement and 2) become a transition to a "zero tolerance" atmosphere for ille- gal entrants, visa over-stayers and unauthorized workers. Fu- ture immigrants will likewise arrive with the knowledge that America's laws are not sug- gestions and will not be set aside out of sympathy for their plight, beyond the extent that the people's representatives en- shrine it in lawful immigration policies. Don Polson has called Red Bluff home since 1988. He can be reached by e-mail at donplsn@ yahoo.com. The way I see it Common sense immigration law renewal Trump's mission to Make America Great Again — or, more accurately, Make America White Again — is rooted in the party's longstanding practice of playing on whites' hostility toward minorities. Political columnist Robert Novak covered a GOP confab in 1963, and presciently wrote that "a good many, perhaps a majority of the party's leadership, envision substantial political gold to be mined in the racial crisis by becoming in fact, if not in name, the white man's party." Don Polson StateandNational Assemblyman James Galla- gher, 2060 Talbert Drive, Ste. 110, Chico 95928, 530 895-4217, http:// ad03.asmrc.org/ Senator Jim Nielsen, 2634 For- est Ave., Ste. 110, Chico 95928, 530 879-7424,senator.nielsen@senate. ca.gov Governor Jerry Brown, State Capital Building, Sacramento 95814, 916 445-2841, fax 916 558- 3160, governor@governor.ca.gov U.S. Representative Doug La- Malfa, 507 Cannon House Office Building, Washington D.C. 20515, 202 225-3076 U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, One Post St., Ste. 2450, San Fran- cisco 94104, 415 393-0707, fax 415 393-0710 U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, 1700 Montgomery St., San Fran- cisco 94111, 510 286-8537, fax 202 224-0454 Local Tehama County Supervisors, 527-4655 District 1, Steve Chamblin, Ext. 3015 District 2, Candy Carlson, Ext. 3014 District 3, Dennis Garton, Ext. 3017 YOUR OFFICIALS OPINION » redbluffdailynews.com Tuesday, March 8, 2016 » MORE AT FACEBOOK.COM/RBDAILYNEWS AND TWITTER.COM/REDBLUFFNEWS A6