As progressives implore Kamala Harris to celebrate and defend mass immigration, she's following the advice of calculating corporate backers: The influx of immigrants will soar voter support for President Donald Trump. belittle.
“Harris and other Democrats have a tactical incentive to avoid fully confronting these sentiments in the final weeks before next month's election,” said author Ron Brownstein. I wrote on October 10th Atlantic Ocean. “But the history of America's experience with xenophobia shows that unless Harris and others believe in more inclusive policies, Trump's vile attacks will only find a wider audience. It shows. [globalist] Society challenges them more directly than ever before. ”
“There was a strong desire to quell the border debate.” [that] “The ability to pivot to other useful parts of the immigration debate is diminished,” said Carlos Odio, senior vice president of research at polling firm Equis. said atlantic ocean.
“Ignore” racist dog whistle …it only gets more powerful… [and] Voter sentiment on immigration will become even more toxic, says progressive advocate Anat Shenker Osorio complained about Articles for October 20th for rolling stone.
Axios.com reported on October 22nd, “Many left-wing immigration advocacy groups are using media blitzes and polls to help Americans understand how devastating mass deportations will be to families. We are requesting that the question be changed.” “We have to tell that story, and let’s not let President Trump define immigration in our country,” activist Maria Rodriguez told Axios.
Harris's strategy of silence
Harris has campaigned on women's support for abortion, and she directly support Radical pro-abortion policies, including opposition to rules allowing religious staff at medical centers to avoid participating in abortions.
Let's start with the basic facts. American women are being robbed of a fundamental freedom: the freedom to make decisions about their own bodies. And that's a non-negotiable, that we need to put protections back in place. Roe vs. Wade. That's it.
But Harris has minimized her public advocacy of unpopular pro-immigration policies, even in interviews with Spanish-language media.
In media appearances, she deflects questions about border policy by emphasizing her support for the 2024 border bill authored by Senate leadership and Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.). “Here's the typical immigration declaration for Harris: Noun, Verb, Lankford” Brownstein said.
For example, she said NBC News on October 22nd:
What does our immigration system need? Does it need to be fixed? It needs to be fixed in a number of ways, including conservative legislators coming together to introduce legislation that we actively support. be. Deploy 1,500 more border officers at the border
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My proposals include strengthening what we must do to ensure an orderly and humane immigration system and fix what has long been broken. It is beyond administration and needs to be fixed.
But Ms. Harris is not promoting immigrants and immigrants with bully pulpit speeches, nor is she spending her campaign funds on media outlets that paint immigrants favorably. She's not touting research claiming the economic benefits of migration or showcasing migrant children rescued from humanitarian disasters.
Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies, said she hasn't even made a token apology to swing voters for her tacit support for Biden's collapse of the border. He added that an apology might attract a small number of voters.
Her media allies also protect her from the public. For example, the media routinely describes the Lankford bill as “draconian.” However, the bill only funded minor improvements to improve the border. To make matters worse, the bill billed as a border security bill actually relaxes asylum rules, giving millions of economic immigrants easier entry, plus expedited work authorization and expedited citizenship. It was something. “The border will never close,” boasted a leading Democratic senator.
Similarly, the media said There was little mention of Harris' newfound support for the 2021 mass immigration bill, which never came to a vote in the Democratic-controlled Congress. “first [2021] This bill…is a priority for us as a nation and for the American people,” Harris told Fox News on October 16.
Krikorian noted that her support for the 2021 bill shows that Harris is escalating pro-immigration policies despite a major national shift in opposition to the policies.
she was just talking about that [2024 Senate border] She introduced a bill as a solution, and now she's talking about an amnesty bill introduced in 2021 as a solution. That wasn't there [border] There is no coercion in it at all. it was just a pardon [and] Increased immigration bill…not only is she not responding half-heartedly to the public's concerns, she is doubling down on this. [2021] A bill so extreme that the 2021 Democratic Congress cannot even debate it in committee.
The 2021 bill would grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants, import millions of additional contract workers for the blue-collar and white-collar jobs Americans want, and provide millions of It would open borders to chain migration job seekers, consumers and renters.
Similarly, her media contacts have also not mentioned her. Migration record In the Senate, there are concerns about the high immigration levels in her economic plan, a potential influx of perhaps 12 million immigrants, or her plan to build more homes for Americans versus wanting the same homes. Questions are being raised about the inconsistency between her plans to import large numbers of immigrants.
The immigration silence strategy is working: 60% of Americans say Harris “has not clearly explained her policies” on illegal immigration, the report said. public opinion poll By Pew Research Center. His 60% are twice as many as the 30% who say Trump has not explained his plans.
Moreover, polls show that the public underestimates the influx of economic migrants, largely because the media hides the numbers.
Her silence has been welcomed by pro-business advocacy groups. washington postt reported October 6th:
“The threat posed by President Trump is existential, and our first priority is to ensure his defeat,” said Vanessa Cárdenas, executive director of immigration advocacy group America's Voice. Ta. “And in January or February of next year, we'll be able to talk about what kind of policy interventions are needed under a Harris administration.”
“Based on where she has been in the past, we know that her policies will likely be consistent with those of UnidosUS,” said the pro-immigration group UnidosUS, formerly known as LaRaza. said Advocacy Director Carmen Feliciano.
'If she wants to win, she can't look weak at the border' Vox reported.
Harris' only concession is Public opinion was theatrical. “She just reluctantly went and took a photo of herself in front of President Trump's border fence,” Krikorian said. A clip of that short event is probably used in a campaign ad promoting her.strict”Border Policy.
Meanwhile, progressive allies resentful of her have intensified their hatred of Mr. Trump. British newspapers are guardianFor example, I posted this claim about President Trump's plans. deportation Immigration:
It is a horribly, horribly immoral, and contemptuously bigoted proposition. It is racist, indifferent to humanity, and hostile to the principles of pluralism and equality. If enacted, this would be the worst human rights disaster in history.
However, Republicans have been able to increase the popularity of immigrants by hiring pro-immigration journalists to cover the crisis in cities like Springfield, Ohio, high levels of immigrant crime, the economic burden on Americans, and the role of immigrants in the United States. We continue to report on policy. Housing costs and legal distortions on the part of the system that favor immigrants over Americans.
“What Donald Trump is proposing is to end mass parole,” Sen. J.D. Vance said in Arizona on October 22. matchto g new york times. “We're going to stop mass granting of temporary protected status… Of course we're going to free people from tyranny, but that's going to happen on a case-by-case basis, not by waving the wand of a magical government.”
foundations of democracy
Harris' strategy of silence exists because Democrats can't even pretend to move to the center on immigration because rank-and-file progressives and big donors are so viscerally opposed to the existence of American borders. , Krikorian said.
virtually open[-borders] Immigration is now a litmus test issue for the left. It is an irreducible value. Every interest and constituency group on the left is sacrificing their ostensible interests. [once] They clash with unrestricted immigration. They can't even compromise when the election results are at stake… [because] It is unacceptable for the left-wing activist class to question mass immigration.
[For donors and CEOs] I don't think it's just a matter of investors thinking, “This is good for my bottom line.” Yes, that's right. But those at the top of large corporations are already emotionally and psychologically post-American. Both economic and broader benefits [post-American] The worldviews overlap here, so they think they're doing well, and they're happy that they're doing well too. [economically].
“They consider themselves citizens of the world. [so they believe] Immigration control is atavistic and evil,” he added.
There is a lot of evidence that pro-immigration investor Keep a firm grip on Harris' election campaign.
Harris' campaign manager was David Plouffe, who took over during Harris' tenure. Chairman of the Board At FWD.us, the nation's most powerful pro-immigration advocacy group.
This group was formed in 2013 west coast investors Mark Zuckerberg led the push for the “Gang of Eight” amnesty bill. For every dollar of profit generated by the government's extractive immigration policy of importing millions of wage-cut workers, consumers of government aid, and renters of apartment shares from poor countries, investors earn about $20 in the stock market. This lobbying activity is very rational as it can bring about benefits.
A wide range of established investors funded FWD.us is hidden The number of casual visitors to the group's website is likely to increase during 2021. exist in other site.
The previous Gang of Eight bill was defeated by Republicans in 2014. Primary voters in Virginia's 7th Congressional DistrictFWD.us ran a long-term campaign to double the country's population growth through migration. The group prefers to downplay the alternative policy of doubling productivity through business investment.
Funded and supported numerous state-level advocacy groups, pro-DACA demonstrations, and public relations campaigns by law firms, media influencers, university officials, and business groups from construction, retail, and energy companies. This helped elect Biden and install their ally Alejandro Mayorkas to the top post at the Department of Homeland Security, which he was forced to do amid a dramatic increase in migrant deaths and sex trafficking. , imported at least 10 million immigrants from 2021 to 2024. and colonial brain drain.
FWD.us also promoted the 2021 and 2024 bills supported by Harris.
The group's top lobbyist, Andrea Flores,now work According to Vox, Harris' campaign has endorsed Plouffe.
In the article Foreign affairs Magazine, Flores prompted Washington secretly imports millions of immigrants through government-controlled channels.
As both the demand for immigrants and the number of immigrants continue to be extraordinarily high, the only way to reduce unauthorized immigration is to increase the number of entry routes into the United States and make legal immigration easier.
As the public becomes alarmed by images of migrants at the border, the government should also create networks to quietly transport migrants to U.S. towns and workplaces and support them until they are settled.
Images of disorder in border towns…Also, the increasing presence of new arrivals without housing or work permits in U.S. cities has heightened public concern about the visible disarray of the U.S. immigration system…administrative leading to major challenges and political discord
She noted that disclosure and debate have made it difficult to admit new immigrants.
Years of disruption at the border have exacerbated xenophobia at a time when the U.S. economy needs immigrants more than ever. Approximately 55% of Americans currently support curbing immigration to the United States.
That strategy is consistent with Harris' low-key campaign strategy in the 2024 election. It also shows who has real power within the Democratic coalition of vocal progressives and quiet investors.
