The Democratic Party has changed from when I started voting in 1971. I remember voting for George McGovern. McGovern promised to end the Vietnam War. He lost bigly.
It was not too long ago that the following was common for the Democratic Party;
When bipartisan immigration discussions pop up, Democrats often insist it’s hard to find a solution because of the GOP’s immigration evolution. The days of Ronald Reagan endorsing an amnesty program and denouncing walls are long gone, replaced by President Trump’s talk of “rapists” and the quest for a wall.
But the reality is that Democrats have moved, too, from when the party cited the flow of drugs and “criminal immigrants” two decades ago, the same arguments for border security that Republicans use now. The facts on the ground have changed since then, but so have political forces.
Labor unions may not speak out against illegal immigration as they used to. Still, the fact remains that the unfettered admittance of people willing to work for less pay affects those here already working in low-paying jobs. It does not just affect the Latino community. It is also affecting the Black community.
For example, the authors of “Immigration and the Economic Status of African-American Men,” a 2010 study published in the journal Economia, concluded, “We find a strong correlation between immigration, black wages, black employment rates, and black incarceration rates. As immigrants disproportionately increased the supply of workers in a particular skill group, the wage of black workers in that group fell, the employment rate declined, and the incarceration rate rose.”
In the years since, the surge of economic immigration has eroded the standing of Black labor even more. It caused T. Willard Fair, President and CEO of the Urban League of Greater Miami, to write an op-ed in The Philadelphia Tribune where he questioned the pernicious loyalty of the CBC to the Democratic Party’s immigration policy:
“The lasting effects of uncontrolled, mass immigration on Black Americans are plainly obvious and have been well-documented throughout our country’s history,” he lamented in the March 2022 commentary. “So how can any Black politician in good conscience advocate for a more expansive immigration policy that would continue to do us harm?”
Those who want to move forward need to look hard at who they are letting in. Many of those people have never known Democracy; for instance, the ones that fled Cuba had no problem with the Dictator Baptista; they thrived under him.
Cuba has been under authoritarian rule since 1952, when dictator Fulgencio Batista took power. As Batista made fortunes and built up his influence over the country, he developed a reputation as a corrupt and ruthless ruler. He controlled the press, suspended free and fair elections, and banned protests.
Do you think that Cubans fear a Dictatorship? Almost all of the those fleeing do not have an idea of what a democracy is, and don’t care whether it is ruled by a Dictator or a President who acts as dictator.
While President Biden has been talking about Democracy, we as a nation have supported Dictators in Latin America for along time. There is a saying that the only reason that there has not been a revolution here in the United States is because the CIA is prohibited from getting involved locally.
Democrat Party leaders have to have a long conversation as to whether they want to keep helping people coming here illegally or help those already here.