The Atlantic: How Democrats Lost Their Way on Immigration

[hopper]

The tragic thing about the Democrats on immigration is that they somehow ran a campaign in 2016 which inspired both anti-immigration swing voters and pro-immigration portions of their base to believe that the party supports open borders and believes that deportations are always immoral.

This is odd enough in itself, but it becomes downright surreal when poised against their outgoing president’s record, which involved millions of deportations and demonstrated a much stronger interest in creating refugees than in hosting them. (How is that for Obama’s inspiring moral leadership?)

This. Obama was nicknamed the "Deporter in Chief" by immigration activists. The perception on all sides that the Democrats are in favour of open borders is bizarre.

Well in his second presidential term he wasn't "deporter in chief" anymore. He created programs like DAPA and DACA and focused on deporting criminal illegal immigrants.

Also consider that he changed the statistics so that anyone caught trying to entering at the border became counted as "deported" Inorder to increase the number of the deported (almost unimaginable from anyone in the current Democratic Party doing that).

I look at Pew Research's data in terms of Illegal Immigration Data Break Down of Criminal Immigrants vs Non-Criminal Illegal Immigrants getting deported. I think Pew is credible with the data that they gather.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     It concerns me how far to the left the Democrats have ventured on this issue rhetorically. Changing much on this issue wouldn't by itself move the dial, but it serves as a clear example of the extent to which the Democratic Party has been seized by the interests of an upper-middle class liberal caste and no longer really listens to the working class that it has historically represented. Open door policies are clearly against the interests of the American working class, but they soothe the conscience of those who direct the policy positions of the Party, and ergo are confused for being good policy and good strategy when they are neither.