JD FOSTER: Democrats And Their Border And ID Attack On Democracy

It all fits together, doesn’t it? So much Democrat prattle can’t withstand elementary scrutiny, but align certain issues and a strategy emerges. Consider open borders and opposition to common photo IDs for voting.

Start with open borders. Sure, many millions who flooded the United States under Joe Biden and before sought freedom and a better life in the land of opportunity. If you lived in Venezuela under Maduro or Haiti under, well, anybody, why wouldn’t you risk everything for a chance at the promised land?

It is also true that a certain level of immigration invigorates a country. But the immigration must follow certain limits, laws, and procedures. An attractive country with open borders soon ceases to be a country, instead morphing into the kind of dump from which the immigrants fled.

Under President Donald Trump the left extended its insanity to protecting violent illegals against deportation. Not all illegals commit crimes after entering the country illegally, but tens of thousands have. The left wants every single one of them to stay in America.

Consider George Soros-backed woke Fairfax County, Va. Commonwealth Attorney Steve Descano who “repeatedly dropped charges against a violent migrant who allegedly butchered a woman at a bus stop.” No doubt Descano offers touching words to explain why Sierra Leone illegal Abdul Jalloh slashed away at 41-year-old mother Stephanie Minter.

Making sense of leftwing mush justifying open borders and protecting monsters like Jalloh is almost impossible. Almost. These aren’t stupid people. And many of them are sincere as they read the approved Democratic Party talking points.

Focus sharpens when considering Democrats’ fierce opposition to requiring government-issued photo IDs for voting, offering the same arguments used against cleaning up official voter registration rolls. In isolation, these arguments are as senseless as their defense of open borders.