Men in the migrant caravan cheer as they clash with Mexican riot police at the border between Mexico and Guatemala on October 19, 2018 in Ciudad Tecun Uman, Guatemala. Migrants and police faced off when the caravan of thousands of migrants tried to cross into Mexico after pushing past Guatemalan security forces. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

(CNSNews.com) - The liberal media pundits who pillory President Trump for his firm stand against illegal immigration don't have to worry about low-skilled foreigners taking their jobs or moving to their neighborhoods, so they can afford to be "politically correct," said Peter Kirsanow, who is currently serving a third, six-year term on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

"Until they are threatened in terms of their job prospects or the quality of life in their neighborhoods, they can continue to engage in this political correctness," Kirsanow told Fox News's Tucker Carlson Wednesday night.

A number of CNN and MSNBC anchors and contributors, for example, continue -- right to this very moment -- to berate Trump as a "racist," "evil," "dog-whistler" who doesn't want "brown" people (and "shoeless moms") coming into the country. They object to him using the word "invasion" to describe the "caravan" of would-be illegal immigrants; and they dismiss his sending U.S. troops to the border as a cheap "election ploy."

These people are "moralizing," Kirsanow said, and they completely misunderstand the very real concerns of normal Americans with respect to the caravan:

Most normal Americans are not concerned about the race, ethnicity or the gender identity of the participants in the caravan. They're concerned because they see 7,000 mostly military-age males who are jobless, who proclaimed an intent to violate our borders, break our laws, and they're not going to be moving to the neighborhoods that these journalists and these media talking heads talk about. They are not 7,000 unemployed journalists, for example, that are going to be going to Don Lemon's house and maybe competing with him for a job. They're coming to my neighborhood, inner-city Cleveland, and they're going to be competing against low-skilled workers -- the data show predominantly black, male, low-skilled workers. They apparently don't have any concern for them. The military or the political imperative is such that they need and want to have more workers, more voters coming in from Third World countries that they can indoctrinate, and this obsession with identity politics makes people say and do profoundly stupid things. You saw it in the clips that you just ran. But they are completely divorced from the concerns of normal Americans with respect to what these individuals who are going to be imminently crossing the border are going to do with respect to the rule of law, our sovereignty, the public health, crime rates and so on.

"This isn't about race. It's about economics," Carlson agreed.

"I think it's becoming more and more obvious," Kirsanow responded.

"I know that in my service on the Civil Rights Commission over a number of years, I can see that there's been a shift in the understanding. Low-skilled workers get it. The elites very often like to engage in this type of moralizing; it makes them feel good about themselves.

"But until they are threatened in terms of their job prospects or the quality of life in their neighborhoods, they can continue to engage in this political correctness."

Kirsanow said he sees the “deleterious effects” of the political correctness that is being spread by political, social and media elites:

“It's unfortunate, but I think a day of reckoning is coming. We are seeing it more and more, that ordinary Americans are getting it.



"And some of it actually has to do with the Trump effect that Trump speaks plainly about these things. Sometimes he crosses or touches third rails. He doesn't get hurt but it engenders a conversation. A lot of people become apoplectic because of the conversation, but certain eternal verities emerge from that conversation.”

At his rally in Florida Wednesday night, President Trump said, "Republicans want strong borders, no crime, no chaos, and no caravans."

Democrats want open borders, and they want to invite caravan after caravan into our country, which brings crime upon crime. A vote for Democrats is a vote to liquidate America's borders, and it's a vote to let meth, fentanyl, heroin, and other deaadly drugs pour across our borders, drugs that take the lives of over -- think of this -- over 70,000 Americans a year."

Trump told the crowd he's "getting prepared" for the caravan:

You don't have to worry about that. Getting prepared for the caravan. And they've got a lot of rough people in those caravans. They are not angels. They are not. You saw what happened two days ago with the Mexican military and the Mexican police. You saw what happened there. How tough the opposition is. We're tougher than anybody. We're tougher than any force, and we're probably going to have to be, unfortunately. I tell them, turn back, and they're not going to be released. It's called catch, but we take the word 'release' out. We're not releasing. Catch. We have no choice. Before the rally, Trump told reporters that immigration is a "very important subject" and he is not "fear mongering" when he brings it up: As far as the caravan -- which is very dangerous -- you see what's been happening. As far as the caravan is concerned, our military is out. We have about 5,800 (troops) -- we'll go up to anywhere between 10,000 and 15,000 military personnel on top of Border Patrol, ICE and everybody else at the border. Nobody's coming in. We're not allowing people to come in. If you look at what happened in Mexico two days ago with the roughness of these people in the second caravan that's been forming -- and also, frankly, in the first caravan. And now they have one forming in El Salvador. And we are thinking very seriously, immediately stopping aid to those countries because frankly they're doing nothing for the American people. Immigration is a very, very big and very dangerous -- a really dangerous topic. And we're not going to allow people to come into our country that don't have the well-being of our country in mind.

Trump also noted that Republicans need Democrat votes to change the nation's lax immigration laws, but "they haven't given us any votes."