The ignorance regarding Democrat open border policy continually amazes.
Pundits and “experts” yakking nonstop about all these new D “voters” coming in completely miss the point and thereby misinform the public about the purpose of this policy (1). Adult voters still naively believing in the rule of law assume the courts will fix the problem of non-citizen voting. Non-citizen voting is only noise in the overall signal.
The issue is Apportionment.
Apportionment is a State issue, though most seem unaware of this. In nearly all States at present, all live bodies are counted and then congressional districts are altered in response to that census.
Electoral College votes are based on these districts. Whether or not these illegals are allowed to vote, they are counted for Apportionment. Push thousands of new bodies into a blue district and you start rearranging population densities and moving congressional seats and Electoral Votes from rural & suburban red to metro blue.
Why do you think D mayors and governors are demanding (bipartisan) tax dollars to deal with this influx of bused illegals instead of just throwing them out?
Because this is about Apportionment.
Since 2008, America has not expressed discomfort with being, essentially, a dictatorship of “a pen and a phone.”
Congress has made itself irrelevant, as have governors responsible for keeping the federal government inside its constitutional box of limited, enumerated powers. No one in government today seems to care about this anymore.
This began as the result of having an Affirmative Action president and being unwilling to push-back for reasons of timidity by our non-opposition / beyond-worthless, quisling GOP. It has continued because no one is willing to stand-up to the felon selected to the Oval Office in 2020. Or to throw-out the soyboy Speaker who, in light of reams of bank records proving bribery, has yet to consider impeachment, and the Utah lunatic clutching his pearls in a Senate that, doubtless, would fail to convict, as “That’s not who we are.”
What the president wants and “won’t wait for” becomes law, contrary to what once was - BUT NO LONGER IS - representative government, what are designed to be “limited powers,” separate co-equal branches, etc.
The result of busing illegal aliens to NYC, CHI, etc., was increasing the populations of blue metros. Next time around that increased population will alter congressional districts and, more than likely, result in one (or more) new blue districts and Electoral College votes and one (or more) fewer red districts. And Electoral votes.
While adults can take voting by non-citizen illegal aliens to court (and maybe win), as currently defined in most States, bodies are bodies and no law can alter the census counting them.
States can alter their policies to count only voters. But this must be done by amending the Constitution of the State. SCOTUS decided this with Evenwell, in which a suit demanding to count only voters in TX lost - but only because the TX Constitution didn’t make that differentiation. The HI Constitution, referred to in the decision, does make that differentiation, and only voters are counted.
Will red States unilaterally alter their Constitutions to count only voters? No; doing so would move their red seats to other blue States who will not make this change. This only can be accomplished via amending the federal Constitution to count only voters.
This will never happen. Blue States would never ratify such an amendment.
The borders must be secured. The asylum treaty must be strictly enforced or abandoned. (No one with working brain cells thinks the overwhelming majority of illegals are here due to threats at home.)
It’s our country and we must decide whom to allow in. And whom to deport.
Interestingly, we have an immigration law. It’s not “broken,” as the left insists; how would we know? It’s never been tried.
The “Liberal Lion of the Senate,” Ted Kennedy, wrote our current immigration law decades ago. If we had a political party that actually supported the Constitution, we’d make that point every time the enemedia proclaimed “racism,” or “right wing extremism,” when the law is enforced. Ted Kennedy’s immigration law REQUIRES illegal aliens be deported. And the constitution REQUIRES that the president enforce it; not doing so is sufficient grounds for impeachment, conviction and removal from office for failure to execute the most important function of the presidency: “… to faithfully execute the laws.”
If we don’t like the law, we need Representatives and Senators to change it. But until and unless they do, not enforcing it means we are not a representative republic under the rule of law, but a dictatorship under the rule of one man with “a pen and a phone.”
Absent a political party putting representative government first by re-instituting our border, we are done as a free nation and republic.
Border policy is far more important than any other contentious issue on the table. Inflation comes and goes and is up to the Fed. No one is taking our guns without igniting a hot civil war. The GOP must figure out that Republican women, too, want access to abortions.
But if our borders are not secured nothing else matters.
You make your case that apportionment is the immediate reason for open borders and in ten years most of the illegal immigrants will be voting for Democrats. What is amazing is that this alleged president is able with great ease allow 8 million illegal immigrants into the nation for political reasons. The conclusion is that Congress is an ineffective institution to preserve and protect the Constitution bordering on being a corruption institution, if not already. “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” A major job of the presidency is to enforce the laws of the United States. If there is a loophole in immigration law that allows in effect open borders it means legislators have done an incompetent or corrupt job in legislating.