{"id":2336408,"date":"2024-09-04T07:51:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T11:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-want-to-keep-the-border-open-as-an-electoral-strategy\/"},"modified":"2024-09-04T07:54:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T11:54:39","slug":"dems-want-to-keep-the-border-open-as-an-electoral-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-want-to-keep-the-border-open-as-an-electoral-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems Want To Keep The Border Open As An Electoral Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdems-want-to-keep-the-border-open-as-an-electoral-strategy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2336408&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The passage outlines the Democratic Party&#8217;s stance on immigration, heavily influenced by recent comments from former House \u200bSpeaker Nancy Pelosi regarding support for a California bill that would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-has-now-signed-52-executive-orders-and-actions-in-first-20-days-in-office\/\" title=\"Biden Has Now Signed 52 Executive Orders And Actions In First 20 Days In Office\">provide taxpayer funding<\/a> for illegal immigrants \u2064to buy homes. In\u2063 the exchange, Pelosi contends\u200d that\u200d this initiative \u200bwould make the &#8220;American Dream&#8221; accessible to more people, framing it not as &#8220;free \u200bhousing&#8221; but as a step toward \u2064legalizing undocumented individuals.<\/p>\n<p>The central theme of the Democratic perspective, as articulated by\u200c Pelosi and reflected in the views of Vice President Kamala Harris, is a push for mass amnesty for \u200billegal immigrants already residing in\u2062 the U.S. This aligns \u200bwith what they term &#8220;comprehensive immigration reform.&#8221; Harris has recurrently voiced support for legislative efforts that facilitate this path to legalization, implying endorsement of \u200bpolicies \u200dthat would permit mass immigration with retrospective legal\u200b recognition.<\/p>\n<p>Historically, \u200dthe Democratic Party has considered immigration a strategic political asset, believing that newly legalized immigrants would contribute to a Democratic electoral base.\u200b This is supported \u200dby past analyses, such as the 2002 book &#8220;The Emerging Democratic Majority,&#8221; which \u200dposited that a coalition \u200cincluding immigrants \u200bwould be vital for the party\u2019s future success. Critics \u2063argue\u2063 that these views are now often dismissed as conspiratorial \u200dby those\u200c on the left.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, there\u200b is a \u200bgrowing trend in certain Democratic-leaning states to increase voting access for noncitizens, which has sparked concerns regarding election integrity. The argument put forth by Democrats against these concerns is that\u2064 illegal immigrants would refrain from voting in federal elections due to the illegality of such actions, suggesting a \u200black of effective border \u2064security measures.<\/p>\n<p>the \u2062discussion highlights a significant divide in immigration policy perspectives, with\u2062 the Democratic Party advocating for\u200d legalization \u200cand support for undocumented immigrants, while also facing pushback from critics who view these policies as politically motivated.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>If you want to know where Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democrats stand on the border and immigration,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/pelosi-praises-ca-bill-giving-illegal-migrants-money-buy-homes-american-dream-available-more-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a recent exchange<\/a>&nbsp;between former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Bill Maher tells the tale.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi recently told Maher that she supports a California bill that would give illegal immigrants taxpayer money to buy homes. Maher quipped that Democrats didn&rsquo;t used to support &ldquo;free housing&rdquo; for illegal immigrants, and Pelosi replied, &ldquo;Well, that&rsquo;s not free housing. It&rsquo;s the American Dream being available to more people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>When Maher noted that the California bill would make the American Dream available for the &ldquo;undocumented,&rdquo; Pelosi said, &ldquo;Well, what I would like to do is move them to documented.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>And that, in a nutshell, is the Democrat Party&rsquo;s view of illegal immigration. They would like to make illegal immigrants who are already living in the United States, legal. The favored policy for making them legal is mass amnesty &mdash; with public benefits like taxpayer funding for a new home. This is what Democrats means when they talk about &ldquo;comprehensive immigration reform.&rdquo; They mean mass amnesty.<\/p>\n<p>This is Kamala Harris&rsquo; view. She has said so explicitly many times. When Harris reiterates her support &mdash; as she does every time immigration comes up these day &mdash; for the &ldquo;bipartisan border bill&rdquo; that was brought forward last year and narrowly defeated by Republicans, she&rsquo;s signaling that she supports mass illegal immigration with legalization bestowed after the fact. That&rsquo;s the Democrat position.<\/p>\n<p>And it&rsquo;s not a new position. Democrats have been talking about mass immigration as a political strategy for decades. They have written entire books about it. A widely-read 2002 book, &ldquo;The Emerging Democratic Majority,&rdquo; by Ruy Teixeira and John Judis, argued that a dominant Democratic Party of the future would be a coalition of traditional Democrats like working-class whites, single women, and black Americans, together with a new professional class and, crucially, immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>It hasn&rsquo;t exactly turned out that way, but for many years it was openly and unashamedly argued among Democrats that the key to future electoral success was importing immigrants in the belief that they would vote Democrat. That belief still lingers on in the Democratic Party, but if you remind anyone of it today you&rsquo;re accused of propagating a &ldquo;Great Replacement&rdquo; conspiracy theory and being a white supremacist. All you have to do is simply take Democrat strategists &mdash; and Nancy Pelosi &mdash; at their word. They think illegal immigrants, if they&rsquo;re allowed to stay, will vote Democrat. That&rsquo;s the reason, in Pelosi&rsquo;s phrase, they want to &ldquo;move them to documented.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s also why you see a push in deep blue states to let illegal immigrants vote in local and state elections, and why many Democrat-run states are making it easy for noncitizens to register to vote. The unserious argument Democrats offer in reply to those who object on grounds of election integrity is that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-controlled-states-refuse-to-fix-election-problems\/\" title=\"Democrat-Controlled States Refuse To Fix Election Problems\">illegal immigrants won&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t vote in federal elections because it&rsquo;s illegal &mdash; as if declaring clandestine border-crossing to be illegal would finally secure the border.<\/p>\n<p>Understand, too, that the belief that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-caucus-director-mass-immigration-spurring-staggering-inequality-among-black-americans\/\" title=\"Black Caucus Director: Mass Immigration Spurring &#039;Staggering Inequality&#039; Among Black Americans\">newly arrived foreigners<\/a> will eventually be Democrat voters is manifesting itself on the border&nbsp;<em>right now<\/em>. Mexico&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mexico-us-immigration-migrants-d101ba44f9a9eb33e2143520bc430b92\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">just announced<\/a>&nbsp;it will escort busloads of migrants from southern Mexico to the U.S.-Mexico border if they have been approved for asylum by the U.S. Why would they be approved for asylum in southern Mexico, so far from the U.S. border? Because the Biden-Harris administration has been working to expand access to its CBP One app, which previously had been restricted to central and northern Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the government of Mexico is responding to the policies of the Biden-Harris administration by taking concrete steps to facilitate the movement of migrants, whom Mexico doesn&rsquo;t want in its territory, north to the U.S. border. Busloads of migrants will travel under armed escort through Mexico, with free meals provided, which will add to the number of people crossing the border and claiming asylum (which, it&rsquo;s worth noting, very few of them ever get).<\/p>\n<p>All of this is to reiterate that yes, Democrats favor mass illegal immigration because they believe it&rsquo;s a strategy for electoral victory. They have thought so for decades, so let&rsquo;s not be surprised when in unguarded moments they come right out and admit it, as Nancy Pelosi just did.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      John Daniel Davidson is a senior editor at The Federalist. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Claremont Review of Books, The New York Post, and elsewhere. He is the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Pagan-America-Decline-Christianity-Dark\/dp\/1684514444\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Pagan+America&amp;qid=1695306441&amp;sr=8-1\"><i>Pagan America: the Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come<\/i><\/a>. Follow him on Twitter, @johnddavidson.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To understand the stance of Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democrats on border and immigration issues, a recent conversation between former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Bill Maher provides insight. Pelosi expressed her support for a California bill that would allocate taxpayer funds to assist illegal immigrants in purchasing homes. In response, Maher noted that Democrats previously did not endorse &#8220;free housing&#8221; for undocumented individuals, to which Pelosi countered that it isn&#8217;t free housing but rather an opportunity for more people to achieve the American Dream. When Maher pointed out that this bill would extend the American Dream to those without documentation, Pelosi stated her desire to transition them into documented status.<\/p>\n<p>This exchange encapsulates the Democratic Party&#8217;s perspective on illegal immigration: they aim to legalize those already residing in the U.S., primarily through mass amnesty accompanied by public benefits like taxpayer-funded housing. This concept is what Democrats refer to as &#8220;comprehensive immigration reform,&#8221; which essentially equates to mass amnesty.<\/p>\n<p>Kamala Harris shares this viewpoint and has consistently voiced her support for a bipartisan border bill proposed last year, which was narrowly rejected by Republicans. Her endorsement signals approval of ongoing illegal immigration with subsequent legalization\u2014a clear representation of the Democratic position.<\/p>\n<p>This stance is not new; Democrats have long viewed mass immigration as a political strategy. For decades, they have believed that importing immigrants will lead them to vote Democrat. Although this theory has faced challenges over time, it remains prevalent within party discussions today\u2014despite accusations against anyone who mentions it being labeled as promoting conspiracy theories or white supremacy.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic leaders like Nancy Pelosi genuinely believe that allowing illegal immigrants to remain in the country will result in their votes supporting Democratic candidates\u2014hence their desire &#8220;to move them to documented.&#8221; This belief also explains efforts in heavily Democratic states aimed at enabling noncitizens\u2014including illegal immigrants\u2014to participate in local elections and simplifying voter registration processes for them.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, current events at the border reflect this belief system; Mexico recently announced plans to transport migrants approved for asylum from southern Mexico directly toward the U.S.-Mexico border\u2014a move influenced by policies from the Biden-Harris administration aimed at broadening access through their CBP One app.<\/p>\n<p>In summary, it&#8217;s evident that Democrats advocate for mass illegal immigration because they perceive it as beneficial for electoral success\u2014a notion they&#8217;ve held onto for years\u2014and moments like Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s candid remarks only reinforce this perspective<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":518,"featured_media":2336409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-26.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[32282,3933,36432,3813,32504],"class_list":["post-2336408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-border-policy","tag-dems","tag-electoral-strategy","tag-immigration","tag-political-strategy"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-26.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2336408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2336409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2336408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2336408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2336408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}