Draymond_Purple t1_iu09arb wrote on October 27, 2022 at 4:28 PM

Reply to comment by ketzal7 in New York’s Migrant Tent City Is Mostly Empty a Week After Opening by nexert233

In what world are Dems not immigrant friendly... It's like one of their pillars.

Everyone can always be better, do better, but that doesn't mean Dems aren't immigrant friendly

movingtobay2019 t1_iu0i0dd wrote on October 27, 2022 at 5:24 PM

You are conflating rhetoric with action.

It's easy to be "friendly" and say the right things when it doesn't cost anything. When it starts costing votes? Think you get the point.

So I guess if by "immigrant friendly" you mean bunch of feel good statements without substance, you would be on point. Democrats have certainly mastered it (see the free housing lawyers they promised without giving as much a second of thought as to how they are going to retain a supply of highly trained lawyers).

HayPlaceAPlaceforHay t1_iu0rcs0 wrote on October 27, 2022 at 6:24 PM

DACA was massive action. It’s not the policy of dems to let everyone who wants to be a citizen be a citizen.

kent2441 t1_iu2mx2a wrote on October 28, 2022 at 2:24 AM

So it costs them votes, they lose power, and they can’t do anything at all. Then what?

Toilethyme t1_iu0k751 wrote on October 27, 2022 at 5:38 PM

We can be friendly to immigrants and still send them home, humanely. There’s a difference between enforcing the law and abject brutality.

ketzal7 t1_iu0l33v wrote on October 27, 2022 at 5:44 PM

Policy wise it seems like it but they’ve consistently turned a blind eye to border patrol abuses and have had no problem pushing Republican immigration policies when it suits them.