“Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave … Deportation is crucial.” – 1995 Testimony of the late Barbara Jordan, the Clinton-appointed Chair, U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform.

In Kevin Foley’s recent column (Trump’s final solution: ‘deportation force’ MDJ 11/20/2015), we were treated to another amusing example of the liberal practice of inventing a false scenario, projecting it onto a political enemy and then smearing that enemy as if that enemy had created the scenario.

Look up “straw-man argument” to get a clue on this transparent manipulation.

If you missed it, Foley explained that he heard presidential candidate Donald Trump promise to create a “deportation force” for illegal aliens. Foley then went on to write his own script of what Trump’s immigration enforcement action would do. “In picturing Trump’s ‘deportation force’ deployed throughout a sprawling Los Angeles, I envision something that looks an awful lot like the Nazi Schutzstaffel (‘Protection Squadron’) or more familiarly, SS, and the Gestapo secret police who rounded up Jews, political opponents, intellectuals, homosexuals and everyone else Hitler deemed ‘undesirable,’” wrote Foley.

We (yawn) get the message idea. Anyone who supports deportation of illegal aliens is obviously a Nazi.

Score one for a slight variation on the observation made on weak arguments by Mike Godwin in 1990. “Godwin’s law” asserts that “as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches — that is, if an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) goes on long enough, sooner or later someone will compare someone or something to Hitler or Nazism.”

“I see families torn apart …” is a regurgitation of the standard — and poorly constructed — weak liberal argument against immigration enforcement. Qualified, for now, with a possible exception for illegal aliens convicted of a felony. All this, absent even a token nod to someday, maybe, securing American borders or monitoring visa-holder departures. The reality is that about half of the illegals now here illegally did not come illegally. They came on a temporary visa and refused to leave. As did several of the 9/11 terrorists.

Don’t disregard the dangerous audacity of hope for this loony “only if they are convicted of a felony” deportation idea. It came a week after Islamists bombed Paris and ran on another day that news stories informed us of the capture at the southern border of illegal aliens from countries with known terrorist ties. The FBI has confirmed last week’s apprehension of six military-aged men from Afghanistan and Pakistan.