INCOMING A group of migrants (left) are seen as they were taken to shelters by U.S. oficials after the registration process and COVID-19 tests in McAllen, Texas. Hundreds of migrants daily departing from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador entered the U.S. after crossing the Rio Grande River. The town has become one of the epicenters of illegal immigrants who are entering the U.S. to seek asylum.
ON MY WAY! Migrants heading in a caravan towards the U.S. wait for buses in Mexico City, to be transported closer to the border where they can enter the United States.
Flood of Illegal Migrants
Democrats like Rep. Mark Pocan of Wisconsin. Ironically, he serves as the co-chair of the House Labor
Caucus, which says it’s for “advancing the needs of working people, unions, and the labor movement in Congress. Solidar- ity forever.” In 2018, Pocan led a team of Democrats as top sponsor of
a bill to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Critics said this proposal would trample the rule of law and leave poor communities exposed to not only violent criminal gangs, but also what Rep. David Schweikert, R-Ariz., called “vicious” and “economic violence to the working poor.” On the House floor in May 2021, Schweikert warned that
opening America’s borders to a flood of illegal migrants with similar skill sets was economic suicide. It suppresses the wages of U.S. citizens, he said, many of
whom are Black, driving pay downward. Luxury beliefs, according to Cambridge University Ph.D.
student Rob Henderson, a white man who grew up eating out of garbage bags, are “thoughts that can only be afforded by people whose wealth shields them from the very harm those beliefs can cause to the rest of us.” For many poor Americans, it’s a luxury belief to claim a
porous southern U.S. border is compassionate. It’s dangerous for drug addicts, many of them Black and
Latino, who gain access to drugs and guns flowing into the country, along with the mostly Latina women raped and traf- ficked along the border. For many working-class Americans, the belief that an end-
less supply of low-skilled, low-wage workers has no impact on U.S. citizens’ livelihoods is a luxury belief. It is the inverse of a minimum wage — it drives down compensation. In 2019, then-President Trump told attendees of the Young Black Leadership Summit that open border policies cause
violence and death in African-American neighborhoods. He also noted recent inroads that Republicans made with Black voters. “Our philosophy is grounded in the sacred bonds of love
and loyalty that unite all Americans,” Trump told these young Black leaders. “Democrats care more about illegal immigrants than
about their own African-American constituents. It’s true. They want to give healthcare to people that just walked into the country. And for you, they don’t care.” Biden’s immigration policies present an opening for con-
servatives in November. A year into Biden’s presidency, The Wall Street Journal
reported “61% of Americans said that how Mr. Biden deals with immigration is ‘very important’ for their evaluation of his presidency, and only 36% approve of his handling of this issue.” By focusing on the moral case for border control as a civil
right, conservatives can continue inroads with Black, Latino, female, and independent voters. That means highlighting reduction in gun crimes, drug abuse, COVID-19 infections, and unemployment decimating minority and high-poverty areas.
“African Americans built this nation — you built this
nation,” Trump told his young Black listeners. “We all built it. “But you were such a massive part of it — bigger than
you were given credit for, but through generations of blood, sweat, and tears, you deserve a government that defends your interests, protects your families, and cares for our own citizens first.”
Carrie Sheffield is a senior policy analyst at Independent Women’s Voice.
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