Andrew Sullivan, who is distinctly liberal-libertarian (and an immigrant) neatly and precisely dissects the grievous, shocking flaws of the immigration plank of the Democrat 2020 candidates as illumined by their recent debate. Read it all -- and remember, the author is a Democrat himself, writing in New York Magazine, "The Democratic Candidates Are in a Bubble on Immigration."
After pointing out that the Democrats' public proposals would render "the distinction between a citizen and a noncitizen close to meaningless" (which is of course the whole point), he continues:
None of this reality was allowed to intervene in the Democratic debates this week. At one point, one moderator tellingly spoke about Obama’s record of deporting ” 3 million Americans.” In that bubble, there were no negatives to mass immigration at all, and no concern for existing American citizens’ interests in not having their wages suppressed through this competition. There was no concession that child separation and “metering” at the border to slow the crush were both innovated by Obama, trying to manage an overwhelmed system. Candidates vied with each other to speak in Spanish. Every single one proposed amnesty for all those currently undocumented in the U.S., except for criminals. Every single one opposes a wall. There was unanimous support for providing undocumented immigrants immediately with free health care. There was no admission that Congress needed to tighten asylum law. There was no concern that the Flores decision had massively incentivized bringing children to game the system, leaving so many vulnerable to untold horrors on a journey no child should ever be forced to make.And as long as we're talking about Democrat hypocrisy on immigration, try to guess what year these two photos of a border-detention facility were taken.
What emerged was their core message to the world: Get here without papers and you’ll receive humane treatment while you’re processed, you’ll never be detained, you’ll get work permits immediately, and you’ll have access to publicly funded health care and a path to citizenship if you don’t commit a crime. This amounts to an open invitation to anyone on the planet to just show up and cross the border. The worst that can happen is you get denied asylum by a judge, in which case you can just disappear and there’s a 1 percent chance that you’ll be caught in a given year. Who wouldn’t take those odds?
These and other photos were tweeted by journalist Brandon Darby on July 2, 2019. Here is the full tweet:
When Obama did it, it was compassionate caring. When Trump does the same thing Obama did, it is because he is literally Hitler who puts immigrants into concentration camps. That's the way the American Left thinks, people.
Study the figures of the past 20 years of border deaths and who was president during the years with the highest numbers. Click image for larger view.
NYMag also reported a full year before Trump took office, "Obama Administration Handed Child Migrants Over to Human Traffickers."
See also:
Barack’s ICE chief: Cages were Obama’s idea
All 2020 Senate Dems Absent for Vote to Send Humanitarian Relief to Border
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