The leftists can’t admit they’ve been wrong on immigration, because that would mean people they despise were right. From Tyler Durden at zerohedge.com:
There’s no way around it, the open borders issue has become the key social issue of the 2024 election cycle and perhaps the most concerning problem of our era. Nearly every election poll shows the economy and immigration as the deciding factors in who Americans will vote for.
Foreign policy has recently become a close third on the list with fear of escalating war with Russia, and Democrats have tried to distract by adding abortion to the mix but the public isn’t taking the bait (Note to Democrats: Parking a mobile abortion clinic outside your convention is a bad look no matter how you spin it). The immigration debate continues to dominate US discourse and the vast majority of conservatives and independents want the flood of illegals to stop.
Most Democrats, on the other hand, still consider immigration to be a non-issue and continue to support making it easier for illegal migrants to become citizens.
In cities like New York, Washington DC and Chicago the dangers of open immigration are readily apparent. Democrat sanctuary cities are cesspools with rising crime, rising homelessness, crippled welfare programs and fleeing businesses. Things are so bad that NYC is paying migrants up to $5000 a pop just to get out of the packed homeless shelters and find permanent housing elsewhere. This is, of course, after Mayor Eric Adams warned that New York cannot take in more migrants.
