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Democrats: Maybe We Went Too Far Left
on Immigration

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Posted By: Dreadnought, 7/8/2025 12:44:50 AM

Remember this moment in 2019 when Democrats were asked to raise their hands if they supported treating border crossing as a civil issue aka decriminalize the border. Nearly ever hand went up. In retrospect, some Democrats are realizing this may have been a big mistake. Six years later, the party remains haunted by that tableau. It stands both as a vivid demonstration of a leftward policy shift on immigration that many prominent Democratic lawmakers and strategists now say they deeply regret, and as a marker of how sharply the country was moving in the other direction.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: crashnburn 7/8/2025 12:48:58 AM (No. 1974191)
Ya think? 1 2 3
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Reply 2 - Posted by: crashnburn 7/8/2025 12:56:50 AM (No. 1974193)
President Trump did not lose the 2020 election by being too tough on immigration. He outright won it, then the DemoRoids stole it from him. So far, the tougher PDJT 2.0 is on border enforcement and removing ILLEGAL ALIENS from this country, the higher his poll numbers. Also, the fewer ILLEGAL ALIENS in blue states, the fewer Congressional seats and thus Electoral votes they have, so the less influence they have on national politics. Additionally, the fewer ILLEGAL ALIENS in blue states, the less Medicaid, Medicare, and disability money the blue states get, so the less their economies are pumped up by the presence of ILLEGAL ALIENS.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Golden Goose 7/8/2025 1:02:34 AM (No. 1974197)
No! No! No! You’re fine! Keep going!
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Rumblehog 7/8/2025 1:22:53 AM (No. 1974200)
If “too far left” means breaking every immigration law on the books in the most egregious manner.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: DVC 7/8/2025 1:55:47 AM (No. 1974206)
Maybe? Yeah, about 1,00 miles too far left, you idiots.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: MissGrits 7/8/2025 2:32:19 AM (No. 1974212)
Too far left on EVERYTHING!
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Lawsy0 7/8/2025 2:57:34 AM (No. 1974214)
Rule of thumb: If the government "giveth" the government can "taketh" away. Hold on to your wallet.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: jeffkinnh 7/8/2025 3:56:57 AM (No. 1974217)
Desperate dems trying to ooze back into government. Thus the weasel words. They did massive damage to this Country and now they say that "maybe" they went too far; like maybe I put a little too much sugar in my coffee? The only thing they "regret" is that they are now wandering in the wilderness without a political roadmap and that their whole support system has collapsed. Yes, they are in a big mess but they have gotten off easily for the great evils they have perpetrated.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: DiegoDude 7/8/2025 4:00:02 AM (No. 1974218)
No s@#$. Wonder what brought about this "revelation?"
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Reply 10 - Posted by: mifla 7/8/2025 4:13:46 AM (No. 1974220)
Like Clinton, they are sorry that they got caught.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Flyball Dogs 7/8/2025 4:43:58 AM (No. 1974233)
In my mind, America’s Communists have 2 problems. 1) they have no core values, except what they think will sell to the masses and/or will increase their power. 2) they have zero emotional intelligence (probably because they are blinded by power). They can’t / won’t read a room, and therefore are perplexed when their stupid ideas are soundly rejected. They are willingly stupid because their reason for being is power and control.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Bur Oak 7/8/2025 7:06:27 AM (No. 1974273)
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, / When first we practice to deceive!" is often attributed to Sir Walter Scott's poem "Marmion,"
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Strike3 7/8/2025 7:51:54 AM (No. 1974313)
Uncontrolled illegal immigration, the persecution of Donald Trump, lawfare, spending, bungled healthcare, general incompetence in managing the country, LGBTQ and trans madness, coziness with China, illegal use of the Autopen which produced pardons for many criminals, the theft of billions of dollars by democrats. Face it, you really screwed up the country, no maybe about it.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: bpl40 7/8/2025 8:11:53 AM (No. 1974325)
If Democrats were on the other side they would make full political capital out of their opponents predicament. Will the Stupid Party rise to the occasion?
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Encore 7/8/2025 9:00:04 AM (No. 1974345)
They went too far left?…They went where their black souls wanted to. These people knew where they were going and had mapped the way, it wasn’t accidental. These are moral-less, power hungry juveniles that will do egregious harm to anyone trying to block their paths to domination.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: bighambone 7/8/2025 9:08:26 AM (No. 1974346)
We are being told that the leftist progressive and socialist Democrats maybe are going to temporarily back off their public stance on supporting unlimited mass uncontrolled illegal immigration before the upcoming midterm elections, to “sucker” the wimpy Republicans to back what will be called a Democrat designed “comprehensive immigration reform” process, that is for all intents and purposes a mass amnesty for as many millions of illegal aliens as possible that would legalize them and put them on a Democrat designed “path to citizenship”. In return, as they did in the past the Democrats will tell the wimpy Republicans, as they told wimpy Republicans in the past, that in return for supporting a new Democrat designed amnesty, that they, the Democrats, would support effective enforcement of the immigration laws in the future, that in reality never happened after past amnesties, that just encouraged and invited more mass uncontrolled illegal immigration to where we find the USA today loaded with tens of millions of illegal aliens. As after those past Reagan and Bush signed amnesties were passed, the Democrats went on to sabotage all effective immigration reform processes, both through the courts and politically in Congress. The leftist and progressive Democrats cannot be believed on that issue, as they consider just about all Third World origin poor and generally uneducated illegal aliens to be prospective future leftist and progressive Democrat supporters and future voters by as many millions as possible to keep them, today’s leftist progressive and socialist Democrats in permanent political power running both the Congress and the White House, able to permanently change the future political population demographics of the USA to that of a minority-majority country supporting the leftist progressive and socialist Democrat agenda to transform the USA into some sort of future socialist utopia, thus sending the wimpy Republicans to crash and burn politically. It looks like the wimpy Republicans could well be suckered again, especially once they are told that their business supporters rely on cheap foreign and illegal labor?
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Reply 17 - Posted by: 3XALADY 7/8/2025 9:47:55 AM (No. 1974367)
No one seems to be concerned about the billion$ it is taking to clear them out of this country.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: clayusmcret 7/8/2025 11:18:29 AM (No. 1974412)
Democrats got caught trying to implement a failed national strategy. They committed treason in an attempt to produce mass numbers to increase the number of democrat congressional districts, and committed treason with plans to put in place the ability to approve mass amnesties to create nearly 20 million new registered democrats.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: Kate318 7/8/2025 11:32:22 AM (No. 1974427)
Ayanna Presley is not the spokesperson you want to look to in the democrat party.
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