WaPo: Immigration Polling Looks Bad, So
Maybe Dems Should Change Policy
Hot Air,
by
David Strom
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
11/23/2023 12:27:06 AM
Either having open borders is a good public policy or it isn’t.
At least in my simpleminded view people whose job it is to set policy should do so based on what is good for the country.
That’s not how Aaron Blake of the Washington Post sees things, at least from his point of view as a political analyst. For him, it is all about the polling. Democrats could get away with open borders while the Democrat base was OK with it. But now that Democrats don’t care for it, it may be time to change policies.
At least he is open about it; Democrats can harm the country all they want until
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
PChristopher 11/23/2023 2:08:15 AM (No. 1603525)
Funny how it was all good until the metaphorical sewers backed up in THEIR neighborhoods!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Strike3 11/23/2023 2:10:29 AM (No. 1603526)
What, at this point, does it matter? You can change everything from your hair color to Joe's diaper but we will be dealing with ten million illegal aliens from over a hundred countries for years to come.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
pensom2 11/23/2023 2:26:01 AM (No. 1603531)
This is infuriating. From the article: "That’s not how Aaron Blake of the Washington Post sees things, at least from his point of view as a political analyst. For him, it is all about the polling."
No, it's not about the polling. It's about the enforcing the law. By refusing to enforce the law, Biden and all the dems are also flouting their sworn duty, as pledged by them when they were sworn into office. The Biden administration is not following the law, it is flouting the law, ignoring the law, denying the law. Trump tried mightily to reach a compromise with the dems in the Congress to enact reasonable improvements to the law. The dems opposed him, because they wanted the issue--they could have enacted a sensible immigration law during Obie's first term, when he had a dem House of Rep's and a dem Senate. But they were obsessed with enacting Obamacare. The dems wanted to be able to say that the conservatives were unkind, inhumane, and unmerciful in building a wall or in wanting to close off immigration. The dems thought all the illegals would eventually vote, and that they'd vote for the dems. It's not working out for them. God bless the border state governors--Texas, Florida, Arizona--who have been shipping the illegals to the blue states.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bpl40 11/23/2023 8:00:41 AM (No. 1603615)
"Change policy" means start lying and pretending till Election Day. Once the bogus fraudulent ballots have been converted to votes and the election has been stolen, go back to your original MO.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Strike3 11/23/2023 8:12:18 AM (No. 1603620)
Since when have democrats ever voted based on policy? They vote on wild promises that are never fulfilled but always fall for the next set of wild promises that will take another four years to accomplish if you just vote for their guy. This is one tradition that Obama didn't start but he certainly followed the script.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
NamVet70 11/23/2023 8:13:57 AM (No. 1603621)
The immigration law of the USA is encoded in legislation passed by both houses and signed by the president. That law has not been changed since long before Obama was elected to his first term. The policy of the USA is what is encoded in the law. "Policy makers" in matters controlled by congress is a falsehood. Elected officials take an oath of office which includes fealty to the constitution and the laws of the USA. Those who believe they can change the law by executive order are violating their oath and should be impeached.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
PostAway 11/23/2023 8:42:58 AM (No. 1603636)
For anyone thick-headed enough to miss it, the Democrats only care about the long run. Their goal is to kill or enslave white people. They are importing their army before our eyes and feeding them and lodging them at our expense.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 11/23/2023 10:15:43 AM (No. 1603676)
Deport all illegal aliens.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 11/23/2023 11:43:46 AM (No. 1603725)
Don't think they'll change policy because that admits they were wrong, and Democrats never admit such a thing.
What needs to be made clear from the GOP is how the policies they are experiencing are a direct result of the election choices, and maybe a lot of them aren't as Progressive as today's Democrat party.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 11/23/2023 12:32:35 PM (No. 1603752)
And once you allow a criminal invader to cross the border how are you going to remove them?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bighambone 11/23/2023 12:56:23 PM (No. 1603757)
Biden (Obama) and the Democrats will never change their “open borders” policies unless the courts or the wimpy Republican make them do that. The “open borders” polices were and are designed to allow the USA to be flooded with unlimited millions of poor and uneducated Third World origin illegal aliens who fit within the minority group categories set out in Democrat identity politics, under the guise that they may be eligible for asylum in the USA once given a chance to file asylum claims in U.S. Immigration courts and therefore must be allowed into the USA in unlimited numbers until they are given an opportunity to do that, there are several billion such people now residing in the Third World. The long-term plan is to transform the USA into a minority majority country were vast coalitions of Democrat supporters and future foreign origin minority peoples link up with domestic minority peoples and in the future and constitute the majority of future voters in the USA to keep the leftist and socialist Democrats in permanent political power in a new politically transformed one party run leftist and socialist Democrat America.
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Change policy, yes....... but the damage already done by the open border is incalculable.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 11/23/2023 6:06:00 PM (No. 1603850)
Re #10. You make laws which require proof of citizenship to open a bank account, or rent an apartment, or register a car, or get a driver's license.
And you ENFORCE the laws against illegals working. Huge fines to employers hiring them.
Eisenhower had "Operation Wetback" ( I love the name) and deported many millions of illegals. It would not be at all hard to do.....IF the government pukes would actually DO IT.
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