Republicans want open borders so they can campaign on razor wire and racism. If the problem ever were to be “fixed”, they’d have nothing left to bitch about. They don’t actually want the immigration crisis solved, just like they didn’t actually want Roe overturned. They just wanted to be able to scream about it like children so they could piss off low information voters.
Trump is just helping pull back the veil on the charade.
It’s a perfect example of the dog catching the car. They likely never expected to be successful with roe and had no idea what to do when they won. This is also likely to be their downfall. I’m not sure they thought through just how many younger voters would be riled up and extremely pissed off about it.
Exactly. They want immigrants to build our houses but they want to tell white people the immigrants are the problem, for votes and power.
And also do jobs like working chicken farms and dangerous jobs that you would have to pay US citizens more money to do (and also pay the taxes on them). The idea of immigrants being “illegal” came about as a way to replace slave labor. People who know they will be deported don’t make complaints to OSHA, so you can treat them poorly, and just replace them like you would any other expendable item should your place of employment lead to them becoming ill, dismembered, or even deceased.
EDIT - This article explains this better than me.
The old guard doesn’t want those things, but the problem is that if you rant about problems you don’t want to solve because they’re politically useful, eventually people will start to believe you. The McConnells want to use the threat of immigrants to get elected and pass Conservative bills; the Marj Greenes want to “solve” it, preferably finally.
