One way you can tell Democrats are wrong on immigration

Thomas Lifson:

One of the most prestigious and richest progressive think-tanks is urging Democrats in competitive races to hide their real intentions from voters. In a remarkable move, the Center for American Progress is telling Democrats running for office to avoid ("spend as little time as possible" on) discussing immigration – because the issue works for Republicans, not Democrats. Let me translate: deceive voters about what you plan to accomplish if they hand you power.

The Center for American Progress is the think-tank founded by John Podesta and lavishly funded by the radical billionaires who pose as saviors of the poor while pushing policies that enrich themselves and close the doors of opportunity to the underclass. CAP carries a lot of clout among Dems.

I credit the New York Times for obtaining a copy of the four-page memo that CAP circulated among Dems running for office and explaining what's in it. Julie Hirschfeld Davis writes:

Democrats, the strategists who prepared the memo advised, could neutralize the attacks if they responded head-on. But they should spend "as little time as possible" talking about immigration itself, and instead pivot to more fruitful issues for Democrats like health care and taxation.

The strategists worry that Republicans' foreboding immigration message is far more personal to most voters than the more modulated position of Democrats, whose push to protect the young immigrants [sic] known as Dreamers and to ensure humane treatment of undocumented people [sic] does not, in many cases, affect voters themselves.

"It is very difficult to win on immigration with vulnerable voters in the states Trump carried in 2016," the strategy memo said, arguing that "even the most draconian of Republican policies," such as family separation and threats to deport the Dreamers – undocumented immigrants [sic] who were brought to the United States as children – failed to sway most of them.

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Here is the reason they do not want to talk about the impact of immigration.  It is the same reasons they oppose having a question about immigration on the census.  They use the counting of illegals to increase the number of blue districts and house seats in Congress.  It is the way they hope to take Congress away from the citizens who oppose Democrat policies an schemes.  If the illegals vote for Democrats so much the better for them, but the real goal is to gain house seats they should not have.