The left strenuously objects to these measures. They tell us that it's uncompassionate to deny people the opportunity to live in this country. They tell us that under Biden and Mayorkis the border was secure and that immigrants are all good people just trying to make an honest living. They tell us that it's cruel to separate families by sending parents back while the children, who may be U.S. citizens, remain.
They insist that a wall won't work and that it's somehow inhumane. The pope himself weighed in on how awful it is for the U.S. to use a wall to exclude people, apparently forgetting that the Vatican is enclosed in one of the most massive walls in the world and that no one without a special clearance is allowed to stay there.
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They say that they think it morally repugnant to keep the needy out of the country, but I have little doubt that every person who makes this argument locks the doors to their homes and cars to keep people out who might otherwise benefit from having access to what's inside. If we have an obligation to let whomever wishes to come into the U.S. and enjoy the benefits of our welfare system, schools, hospitals, etc. why do we not have an obligation to keep the doors to our homes open for the same reason, albeit on a smaller scale?
If the immigration of eleven million people into the U.S. is viewed by the left with approbation why do they object so vociferously to the movement of a few hundred or a few thousand Israeli settlers into the West Bank? What's the significant difference? And if the left is concerned about families being separated why don't they encourage illegal aliens who are parents of U.S. citizens to take their children back to their countries of origin with them?
The reasons given for opposing President Trump's border initiatives are so flimsy that one may be forgiven for thinking that there's some other reason in play that they'd rather not acknowledge. I probably shouldn't speculate about what that reason might be, but it's quite possible that they see so many millions of immigrants as potential citizens and voters who'd likely be inclined to vote for the party they credit with allowing them to come in.
This may not be the reason that all on the left oppose closing the border and deporting illegals but do a thought experiment: Suppose it was demonstrably the case that once granted citizenship these immigrants would overwhelmingly vote Republican. Do you think the Democrats would still stand firm against a border wall and deportation?
Another reason some on the left, particularly the Marxists and their fellow-travelers, are eager to keep the flood of illegal immigration coming is because they embrace something called the Cloward-Piven Strategy. This is an argument put forward by two Columbia sociologists in the 1960s that the nation could be brought to its knees by overloading its institutions. Burden the schools, hospitals, law enforcement, etc. with so many people, especially poor people, and the whole capitalist system would collapse under the weight.
Cloward-Piven may well be behind a lot of the support on the left for open borders. In any case, it appears that President Trump is not a fan and neither is his border czar Tom Homan, and right now they're the ones whose opinion counts.
