Tanden: "How Democrats Can Win on Immigration"

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[1] If Americans generally are idiotic enough to hand control of immigration back to the Democrats, I fear there's no saving us.

[2] I hope no one around here is stupid enough to trust the alleged polling data cited by Tanden. Most polls are basically just a variation on MSM news coverage. I hope Dems keep deluding themselves with them, though. I basically pay attention to Rasmussen and Atlas Intel. Rasmussen has its own bias, but it's pretty reliable--much more so than, say Gallup.

[3] The fact that these plans are floated by Tanden and the Center for American Progress...that alone should send you to red alert.

Look, Dems have proven beyond any appreciable doubt that they will lean as hard as possible in the direction of increased immigration, legal and illegal. They just showed us what they will do. It hasn't even been a year. For the love of God, is any sane person gullible enough to be taken in by this?

   Only after they've been beaten senseless (too late) over this for six months do some few of them offer to at least cover up their open-borders view with minimally rational plans. It's taken 4.5 years for them to even admit the most obvious relevant fact: that asylum is being abused.

   I used to favor this kind of position: crack down on illegal immigration, increase legal immigration.

   But now that we know what we're facing, we can't make such concessions.

   We need to absolutely crack down on illegals, and refuse to accede to any Democrat expansion of immigration until the Dems have been beaten into submission on that front. Otherwise we'll just see some massive expansion of legal immigration that just constitutes legalizing what was previously illegal. Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

   The op-ed's filler is, of course, bullshit. Blah blah cruelty, blah blah targeting poor abuela who's been here twenty years, blah blah blah. All bullshit and lies.

   As is generally the case these days, we face a choice between [a] a completely insane position, advocated by Democrats and [b] a modest, ordinary, centrist position advocated by Republicans. The former is: move as fast as possible as close as possible to open borders. The latter is: enforce existing immigration laws.

   The blue team's main "argument" here is: Oh, boo hoo, those poor people, how can you be so cruel as to enforce the law?

   Such bullshit can always be deployed

   I feel sorry for people living in shitty conditions who want to come here but can't do so legally. I'd do the same thing if I were them. But if they were me, they'd have to respond in the same way: No borders, no country. No border enforcement, no border.