In many countries, handing my passport to an immigration official guaranteed me the kind of welcome ordinarily reserved for someone who announces: "Hello.
He has issued tough talk on immigration, a guarantee of a rush-referendum on EU membership and, most recently, an oddly anachronistic insistence that today's sceptical Britain is, in fact, a Christian country.
If we hope to keep that magic, we need immigration reform that guarantees that we will always attract and retain, in an orderly fashion, the world's first-round aspirational and intellectual draft choices.
The language echoed the speech Trump used to announce his presidential campaign three years ago next month, in which he said Mexico was sending rapists and drug dealers to the U.S. It is just the latest example of the president using his bully pulpit in a way that guarantees immigration will be a top-tier issue in the midterms.
Advocates of tighter controls on immigration say that guaranteeing detainees counsel would make matters only worse.
"If immigration can't guarantee conditions for a voluntary return that is safe and dignified then they shouldn't send people back, period.
It is, however, a first step in a larger and long-considered strategy to topple a 29-year-old Supreme Court ruling that all children in the United States, regardless of their immigration status, are guaranteed a public education.
They hastily added provisions to appease Senators Susan Collins of Maine, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Steve Daines of Montana and offered assurances to Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona on immigration policy to guarantee their votes.
But with TPS, there was no guarantee immigration officials would let them back in; it was entirely at the discretion of the official who happened to be sitting behind the desk that day.
The embargo still exists, as does the "wet foot/dry foot" immigration policy which automatically guarantees Cubans who manage to make it to our shores an immediate green card.
It basically guarantees that immigration will continue to be an issue going into the 2016 election when Republicans will need to win over Hispanic voters while at the same time giving a platform to the more insane voices on the right.
