The Atlantic article: How the Democrats Lost their way on Immigration

How the Democrats Lost Their Way on Immigration

Great article in The Atlantic by Peter Beinart on the evolving liberal position on immigration. He noted that just a few years ago, liberals were saying many of the same things about illegal immigrants that Trump says.

"In 2005, a left-leaning blogger wrote, “Illegal immigration wreaks havoc economically, socially, and culturally; makes a mockery of the rule of law; and is disgraceful just on basic fairness grounds alone.” In 2006, a liberal columnist wrote that “immigration reduces the wages of domestic workers who compete with immigrants” and that “the fiscal burden of low-wage immigrants is also pretty clear.” His conclusion: “We’ll need to reduce the inflow of low-skill immigrants.” That same year, a Democratic senator wrote, “When I see Mexican flags waved at proimmigration demonstrations, I sometimes feel a flush of patriotic resentment. When I’m forced to use a translator to communicate with the guy fixing my car, I feel a certain frustration.”

The blogger was Glenn Greenwald. The columnist was Paul Krugman. The senator was Barack Obama."

You won't hear that from the left these days.

I think this is one of the few honest attempts by someone on the left to try to understand the Trump victory without resorting to "Russia, Russia, Russia!" as the dominate narrative. He recommends that liberals moderate their position on immigration and support (gulp!) assimilation again.

My prediction is that this article is a spit in the wind, but after months of hysteria from the left, I'm glad that at least a few on the left are awaking from their Russia-Drumpf coma and are looking at real issues.

 

Sounds like you want the Democrats to return to their roots:



Maybe you can rejoin them soon and we can get back to saving the Republic. Then maybe we can return to the era of Ronald Reagan who said:

"I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still." (farewell speech 11 January 1989)

 

At least LilMike is telling the truth about the left, who do not understand the economics of our nation.

From the founding fathers, all the way up to Ronald Reagan (and probably beyond), the constitutionalists among us knew the dangers of too much government. Today, the leftist created lies have been forcefully hoisted upon the right and we are at a serious cross-roads.

Instead of incentivizing employers to hire Americans and take them off welfare, unemployment lines, and out of prisons, the anti-immigrant lobby wants to penalize employers, encouraging them to take their business into foreign countries. Instead of solving our own problems, the immigration whores want to use phony statistics and wishful thinking to scapegoat the people in society least able to fight back.

The reason foreigners are here is because it is profitable. Americans, with their insatiable appetite for big government, high taxes, and a lack of qualified people that want to work have necessitated the influx of foreigners willing to do an honest day's work for an honest day's wage.