Open Borders Extremists Take Off Their Masks

For years, members of the Democratic Party actually made sense on immigration.  Or at least they pretended to.

You could say President Bill Clinton had a “public” and a “private” position on illegal immigration.  He shared his “public” position with the American public during his 1995 State of the Union address, shortly after getting pummeled in the midterms; losing control of both houses of Congress to the Republicans.  His public position would come as music to the ears of the supporters of President Trump’s “America First” policy on illegal immigration:

 

All Americans, not only in the States most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public service they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. That’s why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens. In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace as recommended by the commission headed by former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.

 

On the other hand, President Clinton’s private position influenced his decision to legalize a million illegal immigrants ahead of the 1996 Presidential Election.  Actions speak louder than words. 

Even far left zealots like Chuck Schumer and Barack Obama have actually uttered many of the same bullet points their party now decries as “white supremacy.”  In a speech given less than a decade ago, Schumer proclaimed that “People who enter the United States illegally without our permission are illegal aliens without our permission are illegal aliens and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who entered the U.S. legally…When we use phrases like undocumented workers, we convey a message to the American people that their government is not serious about combating illegal immigration, which the American people overwhelmingly oppose.” In his book The Audacity of Hope, Obama actually made some common sense remarks with “What’s happening now is fundamentally different from what has gone on before.  Not all these fears are irrational.  The number of immigrants added to the labor force every year is of a magnitude not seen in this country for over a century.  If this huge influx of mostly low-skilled workers provides some benefits to the economy as a whole – especially by keeping our workforce young, in contrast to an increasingly geriatric Europe and Japan – it also threatens to depress further the wages of blue-collar Americans and put strains on already overburdened safety net.”  Those looking for more videos of Democrats actually making sense on immigration can click here.

Nothing led the open-borders extremists to accelerate the removal of their masks like the victory of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the Democratic Primary for New York’s 14^th Congressional District.  Ocasio-Cortez, a Democratic socialist, has openly supported abolishing ICE.  Democrats hoping to retake control of the House of Representatives attempted to downplay Ocasio-Cortez’s victory by saying she does not represent the Democratic Party at large, pointing out that she lives in a very liberal district.  DNC Chair Tom Perez disagrees; he described Ocasio-Cortez as “the future of our party” in a recent interview on “The Bill Press Show.”    

After weeks of ramping up the rhetoric, House Democrats have actually decided to act on their dream of abolishing ICE.  Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), and Adriano Espaillat (D-NY)  have introduced a bill entitled “Establishing a Humane Immigration Enforcement System Act” that would abolish the agency, first created after the 9/11 terror attacks, within a one-year period of the law taking effect.  President Trump received an average of roughly 15 percent of the vote in their respective districts, based in the ultra-liberal college town of Madison and densely populated areas in Seattle, and Harlem, respectively. All three Representatives belong to the Congressional Progressive Caucus, with Pocan serving as co-chair and Jayapal serving as first vice chair. It seems unlikely that this legislation will go anywhere, although it has attracted six more cosponsors; Rep. Earl Blumenauer, Yvette Clarke, Jim McGovern, Jose Serrano, Adam Smith and Nydia Velazquez.  When you average out the percentage of the vote President Trump received in these districts, including the districts of the three original sponsors, the President received an average of 17.7 percent of the vote. Therefore, these individuals do not risk losing re-election by pushing a proposal so out of step with the American public’s feelings about immigration.    

Long before Ocasio-Cortez’s upset victory, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee, wore a shirt declaring “I don’t believe in borders.”  Ellison would surely sign on as a cosponsor of this bill but he has decided to abandon his attempt at running for re-election, instead opting to run for Attorney General of Minnesota.  Should Ellison manage to win that election, he will surely join fellow Democratic Attorney Generals such as California’s Xavier Becerra, Washington’s Bob Ferguson, and whoever New York ends up selecting as its Attorney General as one of President Trump’s greatest adversaries. 

While most Democrats besides Ellison do not come out and say that they support open borders, their actions speak louder than words.  If they really cared about securing the border, they would support building the wall, mandating the use of e-Verify, and opposing amnesty that only encourages more illegal immigration.  In other words, they would support policies that would lead to a secure border; not support policies that support an open border, such as “catch and release.”  Ideas such as “mowing the grass,” as suggested by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, simply do not cut it.

The Democrats have become increasingly dependent on foreign-born voters for their electoral victories, so naturally, they want more of them.  That alone explains their desire for open borders.  In his book, The Death of the West, Pat Buchanan points this out using statistics from the 1996 and 2000 Presidential Elections; blaming Republicans for their own electoral misfortunes by pointing out how they “cheerfully backed an immigration policy titled to the Third World that enlarged the Democratic base and loosened the grip that Nixon and Reagan had given them on the presidency of the United States.  In 1996, the GOP was rewarded.  Six of the 7 states with the largest numbers of immigrants—California, New York, Illinois, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Florida, and Texas—went for Clinton. In 2000, 5 went for Gore, and Florida was a dead heat.  Of the 15 states with the most foreign-born, Bush lost 10.”  The five of the seven states listed that Democrats have carried in every single Presidential election since 1992 boast a combined 129 electoral votes.  If the Democrats could simply flip Florida and Texas permanently, that total would balloon to nearly 200 electoral votes.  When you add this to the smaller states the Democrats always carry in Presidential elections, such as Delaware, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Maine in addition to the former swing states that they have carried in a majority of Presidential elections since 2000; Virginia, New Mexico, Nevada, and Colorado, the Democrats could manage to put a grip of their own on the presidency of the United States.  That number does not even include the states of North Carolina, Georgia, and Arizona, which the Democrats hope to flip blue in the future due to increased immigration.  The Democrats have their eyes on making this map the permanent starting point for every single Presidential election:

 

 

Buchanan also pointed out that “of the 10 states with the smallest shares of foreign-born –Montana, Mississippi, Wyoming, West Virginia, South Dakota, North Dakota, South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, and Arkansas—Bush swept all 10.”  All ten of those states have remained in the Republican column in every Presidential election since then and remain red in the hypothetical “worst case scenario electoral map.”  Unfortunately, the combined number of electoral votes of those states only amounts to 58 electoral votes, nowhere near the magic number of 270 needed to capture the Presidency.

Republicans could win every state colored in tan on the map above, which I did not create, but it would not help them a bit.  If Texas, Georgia, and Arizona turn blue, America turns blue.  Open borders policies that will lead to the map shown above becoming reality will enable Democrats to enable even more of their radical agenda items with little to no opposition.  The Courts will actively encourage their agenda like never before; after a while, Democrats will have appointed an overwhelming majority of Federal judges.  This agenda includes taxpayer-subsidized abortion on demand, full-blown socialism, abolition of the second amendment and forcing people of faith to violate their religious beliefs by providing flowers, cake, or photography to same-sex weddings and/or paying for their employees’ birth control.  While the Democrats love to bully Republicans into submission by talking about “stare decisis” with regards to their favorite Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Wade, they do not extend the same courtesy of “stare decisis” to previous court decisions that benefit Republicans, such as Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission and Burwell v. Hobby Lobby.

The open borders extremists have taken off their masks.  Every American should know exactly why the left wants millions more illegal immigrants to pour into the country; they will furnish the votes necessary to provide them with a lasting majority on the national scale that will allow them to implement their agenda as easily as 1-2-3.