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Opinion journalist Reuben Navarrette, Jr. recently made the claim that the RAISE Act would prevent U.S. farmers from employing crop workers. Anyone familiar with the bill knows that it focuses solely on how the federal government issues immigrant visas, and agribusiness will continue to have access to an unlimited supply of agricultural guest workers under the H-2A program.

Candidate Trump promised to end the illegal and unconstitutional DACA program on "day one" of his Administration. He failed to keep that promise. There is talk in Congress of a new version of the DREAM Act to reward DACA recipients a formal amnesty. The President must decide where lie his priorities. With the American people and the U.S. Constitution, or with the D.C. special interests who are cynically attempting to play to people's sympathies in order to prevent genuine reform of the immigration system?

Those who oppose lowering immigration to a sustainable level either argue along the lines that "America is a nation of immigrants," and therefore Americans have no right keep out any immigrant who wants to come; or that immigration "grows the economy," and any restrictions will have catastrophic economic consequences. Neither assertion holds up to the most basic examination.

Acting ICE Director Thomas Homan answered press questions yesterday. Reading the transcript against the media reports reveals a stark contrast between what Homan said, and what reporters claim he said.