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Why Are the Democrats Obsessed With Open Borders? (Article from 2018)
The Political Insider ^ | 12/6/2018 | Stephen Janizsak

Posted on 09/12/2023 10:45:59 AM PDT by Signalman

The Means: Why do Democrats want open borders? The answer is straightforward, POWER! It’s simple really, more people necessitates a ‘need’ for more government. The current migrant caravan story is just the latest example. We’ve been in an illegal immigration crisis for decades, with tens of millions of people entering the country illegally.

So follow with me now – more people, more government. And what’s the point of an open border? To invite illegal immigration. And who are illegal immigrants? Of necessity, they are typically people who have very little. They probably don’t speak the language. They don’t have jobs or support systems ready. So they become wards of the state.

The Democrats bribe immigrants with promises of healthcare, education, food stamps, etc. the same way they do everyone else. They create dependents. So now you have a whole new class of Democrat voters that will be with them for life.

A brand new study shows that 63 percent of non-citizens are on some kind of welfare program. 70 percent of non-citizens who have been in the country for longer than 10 years are on a welfare program.

The issue soon becomes, as Margaret Thatcher put it, “You eventually run out of other peoples money.” At which point the existing system collapses.

Enter the Cloward-Piven Strategy

What better way to collapse the existing system and create the need for a massive expansion of the federal government than to import millions of illegal aliens into the country? The idea is to overwhelm a system that already cannot keep up with the demand for handouts. So what happens then?

Two sociologist/progressive activists posited that exact question, and devised a nefarious scheme outlining a way in which progressives within the federal government could achieve their ends (power, more government.)

The Cloward-Piven Strategy is,

A political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven that called for overloading the U.S. public welfare system in order to precipitate a crisis that would lead to a replacement of the welfare system with a national system of “a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty.”

“A guaranteed annual income,” I feel like I have heard that somewhere before…

The Ends: control What better way to control the masses than to be the sole arbiter and source of their well-being? Is there any more ultimate leverage point than to coerce people to do whatever you want, just so they can eat?

Cloward and Piven also touched on another topic of the Democrat progressive movement, redistribution of income…

The ultimate objective of this strategy—to wipe out poverty by establishing a guaranteed annual income—will be questioned by some. Because the ideal of individual social and economic mobility has deep roots, even activists seem reluctant to call for national programs to eliminate poverty by the outright redistribution of income.

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This is a term we hear a lot today as the left constantly demonizes the so-called rich, saying they don’t pay their fair share. Opening the border and importing thousands of illegal migrants into this country would only magnify those calls for even more redistribution of income from the “rich.”

Demand the Border Wall

It’s clear why the Democrats want an open border. They see an open border as a means to an end, a pathway to gain the power they have always dreamed of. The only way to stop them from achieving that goal is to back the few politicians we have left who truly stand up for a secure border. The very future of our country is at stake


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1 posted on 09/12/2023 10:45:59 AM PDT by Signalman
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The Rats are control freaks. And they hate most of the US for it, so they invite new slaves for their virtual plantations.

#ing Rats


2 posted on 09/12/2023 10:47:40 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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The Republicans want them too.


3 posted on 09/12/2023 10:49:14 AM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: Signalman

With people sneaking in from all over the world, including parts of Africa, I wonder if the Democrats have thought that something like Ebola may sneak in with them...


4 posted on 09/12/2023 10:49:17 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Signalman

It’s interesting to note that back in 2019 Bernie Sanders was AGAINST open borders. The old commie has since changed his tune, but for a brief period he did get it right.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/08/bernie-sanders-open-borders-1261392


5 posted on 09/12/2023 10:51:31 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Signalman

It is ironic that it is blue states collapsing under the weight of illegal aliens. They painted themselves into a corner with the promises of sanctuary city housing and benefits. I’m sure they are expecting a fed bailout.


6 posted on 09/12/2023 10:56:27 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: Signalman
They guy misses the main reason. It is to break up the communities that may resist their take over.

That is why they stick them in small towns to break up the cohesion of those communities.

No cohesion, no trust, no trust, no organized opposition.

7 posted on 09/12/2023 10:56:47 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Keep America Beautiful by keeping Canadian Trash Out. Deport Jennifer Granholm!)
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To: Signalman

“Demand the Border Wall

It’s clear why the Democrats want an open border. They see an open border as a means to an end, a pathway to gain the power they have always dreamed of. The only way to stop them from achieving that goal is to back the few politicians we have left who truly stand up for a secure border. “


Note that this Con Inc. stooge skates past the fact that Paul Ryno and Co. did as much as they possibly could to block Trump form building the Wall.

Open Borders is as “bipartisan” as it gets, but this GOPe faker tries to fool conservatives into blaming “Democrats”.


8 posted on 09/12/2023 10:57:15 AM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: DeplorablePaul

> I’m sure they are expecting a fed bailout. <

Ha! The GOP-controlled House of Representatives will never agree to that.

I kid, of course. A few GOPe members will be promised a bit of pork for their home districts, and then the bailout becomes a done deal.


9 posted on 09/12/2023 10:59:00 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Signalman

I think it’s more sinister than just power.

I think it’s a follow up phase of the depopulation agenda...

Take out our immune systems with the vax and follow it up with an influx of infectious diseases our communal immunities are no longer protected against.


10 posted on 09/12/2023 11:00:27 AM PDT by Safrguns
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Paying the living costs of illegal aliens will be used to de-fund the Social Security funds / IOUs. Those IOUs need to be secured with something more credible than the word of Congess.


11 posted on 09/12/2023 11:04:10 AM PDT by RideForever (Damn, another dangling par .....)
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To: Signalman

The more illegals, the more live bodies with a DOB that can be used for fake ballots to steal elections. Dems can’t win in most places without cheating, and the RINOs cover for them because they need to cheat to stay in power too.


12 posted on 09/12/2023 11:06:14 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: Leaning Right

Anti-illegal immigration was a plank of the Democrat Party from the ‘20s to the ‘80s. The concern was wage competition.

Hat to post from CommieTube, but here is Feinstein in 1993 on illegal immigration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvRZdNoHEf8

For the Ratz to side with mass illegal immigration is for them to throw away all precedent and any claim to be the “party of the working class”.

So why are they doing it?

1 - They aborted themselves out of existence. Now they need supporters. So they import them. Great way to rule the Americans! Just import people who hate us!

2 - They hate the White majority and want us to be just another minority in a squabbling mass of “minorities”. I.e., Balkanization.


13 posted on 09/12/2023 11:06:45 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Signalman

The easiest way to surrender the country is to do away with its border.


14 posted on 09/12/2023 11:13:41 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Signalman

Let us not ignore the elephant in the room: anti-white race hatred. They are using the open border to engineer a non-white majority.


15 posted on 09/12/2023 11:14:29 AM PDT by Petrosius
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To: Signalman

Beyond the “democrat voters” theory, I have another one that can actually be supported by the deep state (both parties):

Western civilization depends on a growing economy or it dies. If the population stagnates, the economy doesn’t grow (look at Japan). So they increase the population via pourous borders, all the time, in true politician fashion, claiming to be working on fixing it. And they have no intention to do so. We must start pumping out babies like the nation has become Mormon, get millions of illegals every year, or collapse.

And Europe is in the same boat.


16 posted on 09/12/2023 11:15:32 AM PDT by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: Signalman

Because they are Spiteful Children.


17 posted on 09/12/2023 11:15:34 AM PDT by Falcon4.0
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To: Signalman

bkmk


18 posted on 09/12/2023 11:24:08 AM PDT by sauropod (I will stand for truth even if I stand alone.)
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To: Signalman

The great replacement, that’s why.


19 posted on 09/12/2023 11:29:06 AM PDT by TiGuy22
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To: Gene Eric

Lots of cartel money buying our politicians!


20 posted on 09/12/2023 11:34:04 AM PDT by Species8472 (Don't celebrate sin!)
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