Michael Lind, a columnist and co-founder of the New America think tank, recently published an article entitled “Our Open Border Policy Is Not n Accident.” In that piece, he that notes that as recently as the 1990s the Democratic party had significant voices who called, in varying degrees, for immigration control. Examples were Congresswoman Barbara Jordan and President Bill Clinton. Today, hardly any of this sentiment remains in the party.
Why did this shift happen? Below is an excerpt from Lind’s article which provides his explanation:
“[T]he Democratic Party is an alliance of interests threatened with long-term demographic decline—declining industries, declining states, declining cities, declining churches and nonprofits. These civic downtrodden have united around the hope that they can reverse the unpopularity of their offerings among U.S.-born Americans by importing new citizens en masse.
“A politics founded on this idea—namely, that if not enough American voters like what you are offering, you should compensate by importing supportive voters—may seem like something from Alice in Wonderland. But that’s exactly what the leadership of the Democratic Party is doing, by refusing to enforce existing immigration laws and preventing states from securing their borders—while counting on the Democratic bureaucrats and judges to enforce the dubious legality of such moves.”
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