Almost all social policy innovations since the 1960s have been incremental steps in the Cloward-Piven plan to bankrupt America by creating “entitlements” that a fair and just tax system could never support. Eventually when the government could no longer meet its payments, the poor would rise up and demand change, whether through violence or the vote, in what Cloward and Piven described as “a profound financial and political crisis.”

It is easy to see how the organized influx of illegal immigrants through caravans is an overt attempt to overwhelm the U.S. safety net and force massive changes in social policy, including the long-desired “universal basic income.”

It is also easy to see that President Trump is gearing up for a full-scale counterattack that will likely be the centerpiece of his re-election effort. In addition to the policy change announced by Barr, Trump last week ordered a crackdown on “visa overstays,” which traditionally have accounted for even more illegal immigrants than the border crossers. The week before, his administration signaled that new rules are coming soon to ensure that federal housing assistance goes only to citizens and legal residents. At a time when homelessness is surging to crisis levels in many U.S. cities, this will help to steer limited resources to those who need them most — low-income Americans.