Thousands of illegal immigrants are streaming through Mexico headed toward our southern border, looking to make a mockery of our immigration laws and all Democrats can do is accuse Republicans of being hateful.
Rather than urging that the media ignore the caravan, Democrats would be better advised to lessen their vulnerability on immigration by not treating concerns over border security as inherently fake or hateful.
How hard would it be to say that this isn't how people should enter the United States? That it's an affront to immigrants who have scrupulously followed the rules? That the caravan should disperse and legitimate asylum-seekers try to get protection in Mexico, long before they reach the U.S. border?
Another typical response is to tsk-tsk worries about the border by citing a decline in illegal border-crossings since the 2000s.
The so-called Flores settlement, an anti-trafficking law affecting minors from noncontiguous countries, and lax asylum policies mean that migrants can surrender to border agents and probably get a bus ticket to somewhere in the interior of the country, pending proceedings for which they may never show up.
"Open borders" is the fundamental belief that the government has no moral imperative to act as any other sovereign nation on earth and protect itself from unwanted immigrants.
Democrats don't understand this which why, politically speaking, the caravan is bad news for Democrats and good news for Republicans.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/10/democrats_getting_the_politics_of_the_caravan_wrong.html
Rather than urging that the media ignore the caravan, Democrats would be better advised to lessen their vulnerability on immigration by not treating concerns over border security as inherently fake or hateful.
How hard would it be to say that this isn't how people should enter the United States? That it's an affront to immigrants who have scrupulously followed the rules? That the caravan should disperse and legitimate asylum-seekers try to get protection in Mexico, long before they reach the U.S. border?
Another typical response is to tsk-tsk worries about the border by citing a decline in illegal border-crossings since the 2000s.
The so-called Flores settlement, an anti-trafficking law affecting minors from noncontiguous countries, and lax asylum policies mean that migrants can surrender to border agents and probably get a bus ticket to somewhere in the interior of the country, pending proceedings for which they may never show up.
"Open borders" is the fundamental belief that the government has no moral imperative to act as any other sovereign nation on earth and protect itself from unwanted immigrants.
Democrats don't understand this which why, politically speaking, the caravan is bad news for Democrats and good news for Republicans.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/10/democrats_getting_the_politics_of_the_caravan_wrong.html
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