Summary: In the first debates, the Democratic Party made official its lurch to the left by, among other things, advocating for open borders. This might be a key election for America, after which it changes irrevocably.
Fact-checking Donald Trump
NYT: “Fact Check of the Day: No, Democrats Don’t Want ‘Open Borders’” by Linda Qui. She is from the notorious Politifact; see an example of their partisan fiction.
Chicago Tribune: “It’s time to build a wall around the ‘open borders’ lie” by Eric Zorn.
FactCheck.org: “Democrats are not advocating open borders” by Robert Farley – “Not even the ones who are calling to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement.”
As is often the case, the fact-checkers are wrong. Trump was right. He’s not always wrong.
Flash forward to the Democratic Party presidential debates
These formally opened Campaign 2020. There the Democratic Party made official its lurch to the left by, among other things, advocating for open borders. Abolish or hamper ICE. Once people cross the borders, these candidates will give them a path to citizenship. Probably an easy one, to get their votes ASAP. And they want to spend lots of money on this project. No price is too great.
Harris: “A mother who pays a coyote to transport her child through their country of origin, through the entire country of Mexico .…But what does Donald Trump do? He says go back to where you came from. That is not reflective of our America and our values and it has got to end.”
Gillibrand: “First, I would fight for comprehensive immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship. Second, I would reform how we treat asylum-seekers at the border. I would have a community-based treatment center where you are doing it within the communities where asylum-seekers are given lawyers, where there is real immigration judges, not employees of the Atty. Gen. but appointed for life and have a community-based system.”
Buttigieg: “Of course, the real problem is we shouldn’t have 11 million undocumented people with no pathway to citizenship.”
Castro: “If I were president I would sign an executive order that would get rid of Trump’s …metering policy.” {“Metering” limits the daily number of people applying for asylum.
Keep the borders open until that glorious day when…
The candidates want the borders open until that glorious day when we transform Latin America’s nations so that its people no longer wish to migrate to America. This is delusional. We cannot fix our own inner cities: after spending uncounted sums, Watts and Harlem are worse than they were in 1964. Our efforts at nation-building in Afghanistan (since 1980), Iraq, and Libya create wars and piles of rubble. Why did nobody laugh at these statements? Or cry?
As for “asylum”, those hearings are auditions. People tell stories, often coached to have the right buzzwords. Under a Democratic Party president, they would just be waved through to America.
All of the candidates spoke in glowing terms of their willingness to spend vast sums to facilitate the flow of unskilled poor migrants into America, and give them a lavish welcome.
Brooker: “On day one I will make sure that we end the ICE policies and the customs and border policies are violating their human rights. …I will make sure that we …make sure that people who are here on temporary protected status can remain here. And finally, we need to make sure that we address the issues that made Oscar and Valeria come in the first place by making major investments in the Northern Triangle.”
Castro: “On day one I would sign an executive order that would address metering and the in would follow that up in my first 100 days with immigration reform that would honor asylum claims. That would put undocumented immigrants as long as they haven’t committed a serious crime on a pathway to citizenship and we get to the root cause of the issue which is {that} we need a marshal plan for Honduras and Guatemala and El Salvador.”
Biden: “We should be making sure we change the circumstance, as we did, why they would leave in the first place. And those who come seeking asylum, we should immediately have the capacity to absorb them, keep them safe until they can be heard.”
Sanders: “Picking up on the point that Joe made, we got a look at the root causes. And you have a situation where Honduras, among other things, is a failing state, massive corruption. You got gangs who are telling families that if a 10-year-old does not join their gang, their family is going to be killed. What we have got to do on day one and invite the presidents and the leadership of Central America and Mexico together. This is a hemispheric problem that we have got to address.”
O’Rourke: “We would not attain any family fleeing violence. …We would rewrite our immigration laws in our own image. Free dreamers forever from in the fear of deportation by making them U.S. citizens here in this country. Invest in solutions in Central America, work with regional stakeholders so there is no reason to make that two thousand mile journey to this country.”
Delaney: “Can we talk about the conditions to why people are coming here? …What we are going to do to actually make a difference in these countries.”
Open those borders, America!
Some of the Q&A made even clearer their desire to flood America with migrants. No numbers are too many. If they thought there were limits to our ability to assimilate migrants, they did not mention them. If they thought there were ill effects, they did not mention them.
Question: “Should someone who is here without documents, and that is his only offense, should that person be deported?”
Biden: “That person should not be the focus of deportation. We should fundamentally change the way we deal with things. …”
Swalwell: “No, that person can be a part of this great American experience. ”
Harris: “I will say, no, absolutely not. They should not be deported.”
Moderator: “Raise your hand if your government plan would provide coverage for undocumented immigrants.”
Buttigieg’s reply: “This is not about a handout.”
Fact-check: Estimates vary, but there are roughly 2 million plus illegals in California. They generate very roughly $3 billion in State and local taxes each year. Granting them full Medi-Cal coverage, as recently proposed, would cost $3 billion per year. They generate enough in taxes to pay only for their health care, and no other services! For more about this, see Choose: open borders or the welfare State?
Conclusions
I grow increasingly certain that immigration (not, as the Wise & great believe, climate change) will be the decisive issue in Campaign 2020. Not just in determining the outcome, but in its long-term effects on America.
Both the Left and our corporate owners see open borders as the fast track to reshape America. The Left sees how a massive flow of migrants will collapse our social systems, allowing them to rebuild on the ruins – and get votes votes votes. Our plutocrats see the influx of migrants as they always have, as a way to destabilize any opposition to their rule and depress wages. Both cannot win; they will fight for control on the rubble.
In these debates, we see the Democrat’s vision of a leftist revolution for America. Why do Americans listen to these speeches – much of which are delusional – without laughter or anger? That is what most disturbs me.
Read the NYT’s transcripts of the debates on Day One and Day Two. The Left plans big experiments for America. We will be their lab rats.
Reality check
- See the hidden history of immigration into America (it ruins the narrative).
- Diversity is a grand experiment. We’re the lab rats.
- The Democrats will open the borders & make a New America.
- Prepare for mass migrants, the greatest challenge to America.
- The Left goes full open borders, changing America forever.
- Our rulers make a new people for America.
- See prescient warnings about immigration, which we ignored.
- Immigration is the key political battle of our time.
- See the lies that keep the borders open.
- Choose: open borders or the welfare State?
- The devastating economic effect of mass migration.
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Three books about immigration, all well worth reading
See George Friedman’s (founder of Stratfor) prescient predictions about the American southwest in his 2009 book The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
Europe is our future. If we act quickly, we can learn and avoid their mistakes. These two books provide clear warnings.
Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
