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There are plenty of theories about why leftists continuously push for open borders even when they call it something else. That is actually becoming more rare; they just call for open borders directly now. The most prevalent argument from the right is that it’s a conspiracy by Democrats who see immigrants as their easiest future voting block to indoctrinate. Some contend that opening the borders is simply a way of virtue signaling their hypocritical view of humanitarian “equality” that ignores Americans who are also in need. But it really comes down to a single reason that is so cynical, even most conservatives miss it.
In our politically polarized society, most leftists oppose the law and order doctrines associated with sovereignty simply because conservatives promote it. Their arguments are designed to oppose border security, legal immigration, deportations, and cooperation with federal law enforcement because that’s the opposite perspective of their sworn enemies on the right.
It’s probably hard for many conservatives to believe because it doesn’t make sense to a logic-driven mentality. Why would anyone oppose something just because their political enemies support it? To answer this, we have to look at their arguments and actions and compare them with the rest of their doctrine. We also have to look at the recent past, the “good ol’ days” of less than a decade ago when border security was a bipartisan goal.
Do open borders make sense compared to the rest of their ideology? No. They believe there is too big of a gap between the rich and the poor. Their argument for income equality in all its forms combined with their calls for the rich to pay for everything runs in stark contrast to an open borders mentality which will increase the income gap. Instead of making fewer people poor, they allegedly want more people to be poor. One could argue that they’re so delusional they think there’s enough money made by the rich to help all poor people everywhere, but that’s a stretch.
Lest we forget, it was Senator Obama who echoed the beliefs of his party when he said, “We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States, undetected, undocumented, unchecked and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently, lawfully to become immigrants in this country.”
Who said this about illegal immigration, Obama or Trump?
Today, it’s often hard to recall a moment when leftists were much more careful about their calls for open borders. Those who were running for political office were especially careful, not wanting to sound like they were opposed to law and order. They didn’t want to anger immigrants who came here legally, nor those who are in the process to become Americans.
Spoiler alert: the following quote, which could easily come from President Trump at any given moment, was spoken by Senator Barack Obama a short decade ago.
We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States, undetected, undocumented, unchecked and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently, lawfully to become immigrants in this country.
Listening to the Democratic Party of today, it’s hard to imagine the majority of them ever wanted to stop the flow of illegal immigrants into the country. They’ve deviated in recent years because it became politically expedient. Their base started embracing illegal immigration because conservatives pushed so hard against it. The leftists’ need to be the polar opposites of all things deemed conservative created false ideologies they were able to justify with the help of open border proponents indoctrinating them into the dangerous mindset. Now, the shift from logic to untenable open borders idiocy is nearly complete in the Democratic Party itself. Common sense has been replaced by “anything conservative must be bad.”
This has been brewing for a while, but it was the rise of President Trump that sharpened the focus of leftists. They once supported tariffs. Now they oppose it because the President is using them. They used to want bump stocks banned. Now that the President is pushing for it, they’re silent. They wanted criminal justice reform. Ever since the President started touting it, they’ve suddenly decided the measures they supported less than a year ago must be bad because “orange man bad.”
This is the state of our political discourse. Everything on the right must be opposed by the left. Visa versa is true as well. If conservatives want it, leftists feel obligated to oppose it. They don’t form their own perspectives. They are just the dissent no matter what.
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