I believe you're right. Democrats look on illegals as potential voters...
Undocumented immigrants can't vote. So much for
that theory.
Sanctuary cities, refusing to cooperate with the feds, refusing to enhance security at the border or to even help take care of those in custody, releasing any that are caught, even giving them some voting rights, offering all sorts of benefits and at times are better than the average citizen gets from the government.
Yeah, none of that is remotely correct.
Securing the border is a federal responsibility, period. It is not the job of any city to "enhance security at the border" or "take care of those is custody." Municipalities have no legal or moral obligation to perform the duties of the federal government.
No one has offered any undocumented immigrants voting rights. That's a lie.
No, House Democrats did not vote to allow noncitizens to vote as part of HR 1 | PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks
Nor do undocumented immigrants get "better than average benefits" from the government. They don't get Social Security, Medicare, TANF, AFDC, housing subsidies. California is only giving "Dreamers" who are basically below the poverty line access to Medicaid -- meaning most undocumented immigrants won't get Medicaid.
As the Democrats are welcoming illegals from Mexico and Central America, who tend to vote Democratic, they are trying to stop Cubans from immigrating to the U.S. Why, Cubans immigrants tend to vote Republican. Simple as that.
And yet more nonsense.
Fewer and fewer undocumented Mexicans migrate to the US each year. The number peaked in 2005 or so, and has fallen by nearly 1 million since then.
The migrants coming from Central America don't know jack about American politics. What they know is that if they stay in nations like Honduras or El Salvador, then they are likely to be killed by gangs and other types of criminal violence. They aren't motivated by the possibility that if they make it to California, the children they bring with them
might qualify for Medicaid if the family is impoverished.
As to Cuba? Thousands upon thousands of Cubans fled to the US and requested asylum -- exactly like so many Central American migrants today. Cuba also routinely refused to repatriate any Cuban nationals deported from the US. Clinton struck a deal in 1996, where any Cubans intercepted on water were returned to Cuba, and any who set foot on dry land could request residency, and apply for citizenship; in return, Cuba started accepting deportees, and agreed not to retaliate against them. Obviously, this doesn't fit your crass partisan accusation.
Obama ended that policy in 2017, meaning Cubans are now treated like any other migrant. It wasn't an attempt to "stop Cuban immigration." It was part of normalizing diplomatic relations with Cuba.
If you want to see how a political party tries to stop Cubans from immigrating, look at the current White House. The Trump Administration has reduced the number of visas, and ramped up deportation of Cuban migrants. There is no exception for Cubans in all the rhetoric and enforcement, and certainly no reinstatement of a policy granting Cuban migrants a path to US citizenship just for setting foot on US soil. Hmmmmmm.
Cuban Immigrants No Longer Given Safe Haven In The U.S. : NPR
Certainly the permanent political class among the Democrats wants open borders as they see it as millions of new Democrats. They don't give a damn about the humanitarian issues--ours and the migrants'--it causes. And that makes them unfit for office.
