The Democrats border blunder
Democrats know they messed up big time on immigration. Now they are trying to figure out how to fix their many mistakes on the issue.
The New York Times interviewed several Democratic lawmakers who acknowledged that the party essentially ceded the issue to President Donald Trump and Republicans who put forth solutions to address the border crisis that ballooned under the Biden administration.
The article notes how Americans’ attitudes toward legal and illegal immigration have shifted over recent decades. It notes that 55 percent of Americans supported a decrease in immigration last year, according to a Gallup poll. The author notes that this is “nearly twice as many as in 2020, and the first time since 2005 that a majority had said so.”
Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) told The New York Times, “When you have the most Latino district in the country outside of Puerto Rico vote for Trump, that should be a wake-up call for the Democratic Party.”
Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) pointed out that Democrats “got led astray by the 2016 and the 2020 elections, and we just never moved back.”
He further noted that Democrats “looked feckless, we weren’t decisive, we weren’t listening to voters, and the voters decided that we weren’t in the right when it comes ot what was happening with the border.”
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It is interesting that Hispanic Congressmen are bringing this message to the Democrats. They are actually more in touch with Hispanic voters. I grew up in the Rio Grande Valley, which has a large Hispanic population, and I found them to be very patriotic Americans. It does not surprise that they would now be disappointed in the current Democrats.
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