The Left's Recent "Cause Du Jour" - Illegal Immigration

Here's an excellent article which illustrates the political expediency of Democrats' making "tougher"stands on illegal immigration, while they vote and legislate otherwise. As Mark Krikorian explains, this public position is a false front, engineered to sway the vast majority of Republicans who are getting tired of our virtual open borders.

Talk is cheap, especially when it comes to immigration control. But the immutable value of open immigration means the Democratic establishment is literally incapable of following through on rhetoric about tightening the border. This is obviously bad for Democrats, given public sentiment. It's also bad for Republicans, since they face no real competition on the issue. And that's bad for the republic.

The President's position (a feel-good but worthless "guest worker" system, while still not toughening the borders) is asinine, and the Republican Party will lose votes because of it.

As I mentioned in a previous post on this blog, the Democratic Party continues to try to be all things to all people; internal forces cause them to embrace mutually-exclusive ideas and values, as the pressure groups (a leftist invention) based on race, gender, the environment, labor, and immigration all try to push the party in different directions, forcing it to adopt contrary positions it cannot ultimately defend. The only path for Sen. Clinton and others is to talk a good game on illegal immigration, at least until after the election.

The only people who feel good about this situation is the Mexican government. What a great position to be in - they get to export a large section of their unwanted lower-class mestizos (Mexico has always tended towards a racist culture), who, if they weren't in the United States, would be close to starving, unemplyed, rioting, and forcing governmnental reform. But they're here, sending back billions of dollars to fuel the Mexican economy while President Fox and company get to avoid reforming their corrupt and inefficient government.