{"id":17323,"date":"2018-07-09T14:46:26","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T18:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=17323"},"modified":"2018-12-28T10:16:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T15:16:10","slug":"the-new-york-times-advises-democrats-to-quit-appeasing-immigration-radicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2018\/07\/09\/the-new-york-times-advises-democrats-to-quit-appeasing-immigration-radicals\/","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times Advises Democrats to Quit Appeasing Immigration Radicals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maybe it\u2019s because it was a holiday week and most of the editors were on vacation. Or, perhaps, it is because the establishment elitists have been scared you-know-what-less by the primary defeat of Rep. Joe Crowley<\/a>, a powerful establishment Democrat at the hands of a novice self-identified Democratic Socialist, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Whatever it was, some intelligent thought on immigration managed to find its way into an opinion piece by The New York Times\u2019 in-house columnist, Bret Stephens.<\/p>\n

In his July 7 column \u201cDemocratic Socialism Is Dem Doom,\u201d<\/a> Stephens warns that the radical wing of the party that the establishment has been working to appease is not only a danger to the country, but the Democratic Party. One of the radical positions, championed by Ocasio-Cortez, that is gaining traction among the Democratic Party\u2019s far left base is a demand to abolish ICE, the agency designated to enforce U.S. immigration laws.<\/p>\n

Stephens notes the obvious \u2013 a point that FAIR has been making for many years \u2013 abolishing immigration enforcement is not only a dangerous and unpopular idea on its own merits; it is also incompatible with virtually every other domestic policy priority the party champions.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s social democracy falls apart on the contradiction between advocating nearly unlimited government largess and nearly unlimited immigration. \u2018Abolish ICE\u2019 is a proper rallying cry for hard-core libertarians and Davos globalists, not democratic socialists or social democrats. A federal job guarantee is an intriguing idea \u2014 assuming the jobs are for some defined \u2018us\u2019 that doesn\u2019t include every immigrant, asylum-seeker or undocumented worker,\u201d writes Stephens.<\/p>\n

In case the Democratic establishment still doesn\u2019t get it, Stephens lays out the clear choices the party\u2019s leaders need to reckon with. \u201cWant to preserve the welfare state? Build a wall \u2014 or, in Europe\u2019s case, reinstate border controls. Want more immigrants and amnesty? Lower the minimum wage and abolish the closed shop. But please choose. It\u2019s one or the other.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for the Democratic Party leaders who still have jobs (and want to keep them), Stephens warns of the dire consequences of trying to have it both ways. \u201cDemocrats who aren\u2019t yet sick of all their losing should feel free to embrace them both.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s so obvious, even the opinion page of The New York Times gets it.