Democrats Want Open Borders, Most Americans Don’t

American Enterprise Institute ^ | October 31, 2025 | Michael Barone

[MinorityRepublican]

Who said this? “If you don’t have any borders, you don’t have a nation.” The speaker went on, “Trump did a better job. I don’t like Trump, but we should have a secure border. It ain’t that hard to do. Biden didn’t do it.”

It was Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in characteristic candor. If, as Milton Friedman argued, you can’t have open borders and a generous welfare state, Sanders, as a self-described socialist, prefers the welfare state.

The facts at this point are not in much doubt. The Pew Research Institute, not an anti-immigration outfit, estimated that there were 10.2 million “unauthorized” immigrants (members of groups not approved for legal immigration) in the United States in 2019, the year before former President Joe Biden was elected, and 10.5 million in 2021, the year he took office.

That number, as Pew’s Jeffrey Passel and Jens Manuel Krogstad wrote, grew to 14 million in 2023, “the largest two-year increase in more than 30 years of our estimates.”

The illegal population probably peaked at about 14.5 million in early 2024, when the Biden Democrats, who said they had no alternative to their open border policies without new legislation, suddenly decided they actually could clamp down using existing legislation.

Let’s put that in a longer perspective. Pew estimated that the illegal immigration population increased from 3.5 million in 1990 to a peak of 12.2 million in 2007-2008, the years housing prices and financial markets crashed. Suddenly, net migration from Mexico turned negative, and the illegal population fell through attrition until Biden took office. Then it rose from 10.5 to 14.5 million.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Politics
KEYWORDS: aliens; border; democrats; domesticenemies

[BenLurkin]

“Death to America” has been the Democrat Party motto for decades, and sure enough, they killed it.

[escapefromboston]

A peak of 14 million illegals seems awfully low though it would be nice if it was true

[butlerweave]

They also don’t want laws , police and prisons

[jroehl]

There is not one country in the world that has open borders.

[Macoozie]

They don’t want open borders forever. It’s a short term tool.
They want the power and money the flood of illegals will bring them.
Then they’ll control who and what comes in.
Simple pay to play.

[No name given]

What they want is hell on earth.

[No name given]

Exactly.

[FLT-bird]

I don’t believe those numbers. I think its more like twice that.

[GOPJ]

Sanders knows floods of illegals keep wages down for American workers.

I don’t agree with lots that Sanders says, but often his heart is in the right place. And he’s not afraid to say it. Good for Sanders on this issue.

With democrats that’s not the case - democrats don’t give a damn about the American people they just want to get elected.

[MinorityRepublican]

They don’t want open borders forever. It’s a short term tool.

They want the power and money the flood of illegals will bring them.

The Minneapolis strategy.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Open borders is the fag and lesbos way of gerrymandering. That commie bass turd Joe the Pedophile Biden imported 20 million new foreign illegal alien voters for the communists DemonRAT party of death. Voters who are failed Socialists whose yellow asses ran away from their shacks and where did the piggy loser socialists go? STRAIGHT TO THE LAND OF THE GRINGOS. WE’RE BEING FORCED TO FEED THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES OF PIGGIES, EDUCATE THEM, GIVE THEM A PLACE TO LIVE NOT MADE FROM ADOBE AND FORCE DOCTORS TO TAKE CARE OF THEIR SICKO BUTTS. It’s all a joke. Thanks to ICE, all the jock itch and crotch rot in the Western Hemisphere is being illiminated.

[FlingWingFlyer]

“Open borders” is the illegal alien piggies way of saying gerrymandering for the DemonRATS.

[TexasGator]

“I don’t agree with lots that Sanders says, but often his heart is in the right place. And he’s not afraid to say it. Good for Sanders on this issue.”

He didn’t say that until Trump shut down the border.

His heart is where the money is.

[55Ford]

Strategy: Open Borders - Fill the Swing States with Welfare Aliens - No more Conservatives Ever get elected - Permanent power for the democrats. Picture Oregon coast to coast.

[KarlInOhio]

I heard a Democrat political crying about how mass ICE deportations is a violation of democracy. He apparently missed the part about majority rule. If 51% of the population wants every non-citizen deported, then the non-citizens get deported, even if ICE is going around checking everyone's IDs and knocking down doors without warrants. That is what a PURE democracy is like - the barest majority can strip away rights and property from the minority. Look at ancient Athens where they voted for ostracism where an Athenian citizen would be exiled for 10 years just because the people said so.

[Fuzz]

‘ He apparently missed the part about majority rule. If 51% of the population wants every non-citizen deported, then the non-citizens get deported, even if ICE is going around checking everyone’s IDs and knocking down doors without warrants. That is what a PURE democracy is like’

Aren’t we supposed to believe that we are not a democracy but a republic?

I remember having this very discussion here today.

[KarlInOhio]

Yes, but he very clearly believed that "democracy" was a government system where he gets his way no matter what the people want.

[kaktuskid]

Call’em the “Obies”

[captnemo1]

Hmm... or not crazy as it seems it might both other waY