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Statilius the Epicurean
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« on: June 22, 2017, 01:17:21 PM »

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.
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Statilius the Epicurean
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« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2017, 02:04:42 PM »

Democrats could easily support less immigration using an economic argument and still win Hispanic and voters.
Funnily enough those hurt the most by low-skilled immigration are other low-skilled immigrants.
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