The Democrats used to believe in controlling immigration. You have to secure the borders. You need to vet who's coming into the country. Because if you don't you harm the interests of our working class.
The Dems had empathy for their own citizens. The ones who would be most impacted by unrestrained, uncontrolled, immigration. That was their virtue signal. Then.
And it was right. Any country is right to have more empathy for its own people. Especially if the ones you have empathy for are the poorest in your society.
Then things changed. I'm not sure when.
But for sure, by the time Joe Biden was in the White House, the Democrats -- not necessarily Joe himself, who was suffering from brain meltdown, as we on the Right knew all along, but now even the Democrats know from books like "Original Sin" -- had decided that they really, really, wanted Open Borders.
In the first few years of Joe Biden's administration, the numbers of illegals crossing the borders increased tenfold. All due to specific policy.
All while the legacy media paid no attention. So the only people that knew about it were on the Right.
The question is: why did they do this? Why did they abandon their policy of controlling immigration, a policy that luminaries like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama had followed?
I've come down to three answers:
1. The Indentured Servants reason.
2. The John Lennon "Imagine" reason.
3. The Make America California reason.
The "indentured servants" reason is this: that we need our illegal immigrants (aka "undocumented migrants") to come mow our lawns. To trim our hedges. To serve our tequilas. To cater our cocktail parties.
There's a thing called "they said the quiet part out loud". And boy was that the case with Bishop Miiam Edgar Budde, who spoke at Trump's inauguration. She told herself she was going to Speak Truth to Power, I guess. But in reality gave us the best example of “saying the quiet part out loud”.
. "Who's going to pick our crops", she asked the new president, who sat glowering in his seat. "Who will clean our offices?". "Who will labour in our poultry farms, and our meat packing plants?". "Who will wash our dishes and pick our blueberries?". Who will do the nightshifts at our hospitals?". Yes, she said all that! The noble pastor, this woman of God. All apart from: Who gonna pick our cotton?
The answer to these questions is: resident working class Americans will do the jobs if we just pay them well enough. That is, increase their real wages, which have been flat for decades. And which used to be an aim of the Democrats before they decided to shift their empathy from fellow citizens to illegal non-citizens.
The John Lennon “Imagine” reason comes down to the line “imagine there’s no borders… it’s very easy to do”. There’s a whole lotta people out there who genuinely believe the world would be a better place with no borders. OK. Then fight an election over it! You’d be up against the 80% of people — around the western world — who don’t agree with you. What you can’t do -- at least, what you shouldn't do --is pretend you’re for national borders, as Biden did in the campaign — and then have the radical open-borders wing of the administration, the Bernie’s, the Ilhan Omar’s, hijack the policy and promptly open the borders.
The making America into California reason. This is the Democrats' idea that bringing in vast numbers of illegal immigrants will strengthen their electoral base. The ultimate aim being “Californication” of America. A state, a country, so Blue, so Democrat that Republicans can’t ever win again. A One Party State. We then have a monopoly of the Left.
How do we know this is one of the Democrats’ aims? Because they tell us, again and again. Democrat luminaries like Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, AOC, Ayanna Pressley… all tell us. Gleefully so, when the border is wide open, as it was during the whole of the Biden administration.
Anyway, that’s my summary. Any others you think of, let me know.
Happens that 80% of folks are against open borders and unchecked illegal immigration. Folks want a secure border, as Dems used to stand for. But elites today don’t care. For they are, they see themselves, as Thomas Sowell has pointed out, as “The Anointed”.
