Declares himself a Nationalist, sends an army down to the border and ready to end birthright citizenship. If this does not get the racists out to vote nothing will.
If you think the Democrats have a cohesive plan for immigration, you'd be wrong. Historically, Democrats supported strong borders because they knew American workers could never compete with illegal immigrants. Democrats and union leaders have known that peasants from Latin America will always work for less than Americans will, that's why employers prefer them. Most Democrats opposed unchecked immigration because it hurts American workers (it's simple supply and demand). For example, after the fall of Saigon in 1975, Dem governor Jerry Brown opposed letting Vietnamese refugees into California on the grounds the state already had enough poor people. As he put it, "there's something strange about saying let's bring 500,000 more people when we can't take care of the one million Californians out of work". His administration tried to block refugee flights to Travis Air Force Base near San Francisco. Senator Joe Biden agreed, and even introduced legislation to curb the arrival of the Vietnamese. A couple of decades later, President Clinton said that 'Americans are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold may otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public services they use impose burdens on our taxpayers.' Then-Senator Obama said that 'we are a generous and welcoming people here in the US, but those who are in this country illegally and those who employ them disrespect the rule of law... we simply cannot allow people to pour into the US undetected, undocumented, unchecked and circumventing the line of people are waiting patiently, diligently and lawfully to become immigrants in this country'. 'Immigration reduces the wages of domestic workers who compete with immigrants explained Paul Krugman in the NYT in 2006 - 'we need to reduce the inflow of low skilled immigrants; mainly that means better control on illegal immigration." Senator Hillary Clinton voted for a fence on the border with Mexico. So did Obama, Chuck Schumer and 25 Democratic Senators.
So what's changed? Not the economics of it - the law of supply and demand still holds. I think it's a cold calculation by the democrats informed by the following reasons:
1) There are 10-20 million illegal immigrants living in the US
2) Dems plan to give all of them citizenship
3) Overwhelming majority of first-time immigrant voters vote Democrat
4) Biggest landslide in American Presidential history was only 17 million votes
Do the math - the payoff for Democrats is a permanent electoral majority, simple as that. The Dem strategy has fckall to do with anything else but attaining power.
I leave you with the words of Harry Reid, the former Democratic Senate leader:
Jewey Lewis and the Jews, I'm assuming?
