Twenty years a variety of top Democrats, including Chuck Schumer, strongly advocated for border control. Compared to Democrat views today, Democrats of 2004 to 2006 appear to be from a parallel universe. Why were high ranking Democrats vigilant about U.S. borders and why have they changed 180 degrees, even denying their former positions?
Down the Drain
As is now evident, Democrat brass realized early on that they were losing political control in America as more voters felt that Democrats were no longer the party of the working class and had become a party of elites. Such elites didn't have to worry about a border invasion, the resulting inflation, high crime, a reduction in public health, and a strain on municipal public services.
As astonishing as it seems now, Barack Obama was responsible for deporting 3.5 million illegal aliens, a staggering number for the times. Yet, not a word of protest was spoken by Democrats. Why? Because it was necessary and appropriate then – as it is now.
Today, we know what high ranking Democrats have to say about the border. Governors Newsom, Pritzker, and Hochul lead the pack in offering sanctuary to illegals. Accordingly long time citizens are fleeing California, Illinois, and New York in droves.
The Wrong Motivation
What motivates prominent governors and dozens of U.S. mayors to loudly proclaim that they will not cooperate with the Trump administration in helping to round up and deport people who should not be here? Two factors come to mind.
First is that they are playing to their far-left constituents who would prefer not to have a country at all. These people are nihilists; they believe in nothing. They think some grand one-world government is going to be the salvation of humankind.
Second is the speed at which such governors and mayors can convert gate crashers into registered voters will assist the Democrat party which otherwise has been hemorrhaging voters for the last decade. In the short term, they thus wish to seize control, presumably so they can hasten the nation's destruction.
It's difficult to understand such madness and fortunately, with the November election, we have put a temporary halt to it. Still, far into the future, the insane half of the U.S. political class will push their nation-ending views with unabashed vehemence.
Glaringly Innumerate
Equally troubling is that many rank and file Democrats, who otherwise eschew seeing the destruction of the U.S., have erroneous notions about border control, immigration, and assimilation. Many on the left believe that the U.S. can comfortably absorb untold numbers of legal or illegal immigrants.
These lefties, presumably terrible at math, don't envision any problem with 20 to 40 million “newcomers” crashing our gates. We can accommodate them all, they believe. They don't understand even basic economic ramifications of such a human tidal wave invading our shores.
Most of these Democrat voters have not had to compete with the migrant hoards as they show up at hospital emergency centers. These sanctuary apologists don't understand the ramification of having our schools swamped by the children of illegals, and what it means to educate them from a time, labor, and cost standpoint.
Nor do they comprehend the impact of tens of millions of illegals on our economy: pushing up the cost of housing and all other economic goods. They don’t understand the strain on the government, at all levels, to house, feed, and maintain untold numbers of low skill, low education people who have little or nothing to contribute to our nation, but are more than willing to take from it.
Stemming the Tide
Is it a surprise that Donald Trump was reelected to be president of the United States, campaigning on a few vital issues, among them, border control and deportation? During the next four years, if we deport 10 million or 15 million a majority of Americans have repeatedly shown that they are all for it.
Removing those who do not belong here will help to usher in a golden era. Inflation will drop. Crime will drop. Competition for at least entry-level jobs will drop. Schools will be less crowded. Hospital emergency rooms will be less crowded. Municipal and state budgets will have a chance to recover.
Mass deportation is not a panacea for all of the nation’s ills, but it is a huge step in the right direction, the benefits of which will reverberate for decades.