It was – or should have been – shocking to many Americans when congressional Democrats at the last State of the Union address declined President Donald Trump’s invitation to confirm that they believed the US government’s priority is American citizens and not illegal aliens. Since that moment, a significant swath of the Democratic Party has made it quite clear where its first loyalty lies. Perhaps that seems like merely an opinion, but it is based upon a great deal of evidence – most of which consists of the words coming out of the lawmakers’ mouths.
A pattern of behavior toward illegal aliens has led many people to suspect some Democrats see considerable value – or at least great benefit to themselves politically – in flooding the United States with these “undocumented” people.
The growing suspicion, and it is hardly new, is that numerous Democrats see these millions of illegals (more like tens of millions) as a potential new voting base. Of course, the unauthorized newcomers cannot legally vote, and Democrats have always strongly denied that they do or should be allowed to. The catch, though, is that the plan always was to give the illegals an expedited path to citizenship so that they could vote.
Cowboys & Illegal Aliens – Not a Movie
The party’s most prominent elected officials at the federal, state, and city levels began loudly objecting to the prospect of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers posting close to polling stations. Despite many deceptive rumors and media reports, documented US citizens have little to fear from ICE and would feel no trepidation about going to vote because ICE officers were in the area.
Suspected electoral fraud aside, the Democrats’ real problem stems from the perception – which they have created – that illegal aliens are more important to elected Democrats than American citizens.
The State of the Union incident – where Democrats also refused to stand and applaud for angel families – was the first big tell of Trump’s second term. Angel families are the surviving relatives of Americans murdered (or even accidentally killed) by illegal aliens. Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania has been one of the very few Democrats to have expressed an ounce of sympathy for these families or an ounce of outrage at the lives taken.
By contrast, illegal aliens who commit violent crimes in Democrat-controlled jurisdictions are handled with kid gloves, often facing no charges or seeing no prison time if they are convicted.
Another Tragedy, Another Round of Excuses
When 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman, a Loyola University student, was shot dead by an illegal alien in Chicago on March 19, Democrat Alderwoman Maria Hadden delivered a stammering explanation that practically defied belief. “From, from what, from what I’ve been told so far, right … from what police know … from speaking to the students who were with her, it seems she might have – that as they were just out, you know – people go out to the beach all the time, right?” One could almost sense the alderwoman choking on her own words as she tried to rationalize a cold-blooded murder. Hadden continued:
“And they go out on the pier, they walk around, so the, the kids were out doing normal, normal things people do in the neighborhood. And it sounds like this might have been a wrong place, wrong time, running into a person who had a gun, they might have unintentionally startled this person, I think.”
The same people frequently bemoan the human cost of gun violence. Indeed, if Gorman had been gunned down by an American citizen, the call for stricter gun laws would likely have been the prevailing narrative.
The optics could barely get any worse – especially when most Americans across the political divide support the deportation of illegal aliens – but they did. Just recently, a clip from a 2024 MSNBC interview with Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) has resurfaced and is drawing much attention on social media.
Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud
During the interview, host Chris Hayes suggested that, on the issue of illegal immigration, “[Republicans] want more border security enhancement, Democrats want a path to citizenship.” Murphy responded, in part, “You are right – that has been the Democratic strategy for 30 years, maybe,” and continued:
“And it has failed to deliver for the people we care about most, the undocumented Americans that are in this country.”
Did Murphy misspeak? Was he taken out of context? Perhaps people on the left would make such claims. Still, Murphy said those exact words. “Undocumented Americans” – no explanation needed because he obviously is referring to illegal aliens – are “the people we care about the most.” Not people we care about, but care about the “most,” which directly implies he and his party are more concerned with the welfare of illegals than with that of American citizens.
And the party out of power has dug itself a deep hole, because what it could really use about now is a clear statement from a Democratic Party leader along the lines of, “No, of course, we care first and foremost about American citizens.” However, it seems currently there isn’t a single top Democrat who could possibly say such a thing publicly, even if he or she wanted to – because the backlash from the progressive base would be fierce.
It appears an unsolvable issue, then, for politicians on the left looking to the midterms later this year. The optics suggest they have thrown in their lot with the illegal population so completely that backtracking is practically impossible. That leaves them having to rely on the votes of Americans who realize – even if they are loath to admit it – that the party has pledged its loyalty to illegal aliens above them.
Which ties in, rather conspiratorially but also neatly, with Democrats’ anger at the thought of ICE officers at polling stations. The very people they “care about the most” won’t be voting, while the people who could propel them to electoral victory have been relegated to a position of lesser importance.
It wasn’t William Shakespeare who wrote this oft-quoted line, but Scottish author Sir Walter Scott in his epic, Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field. It seems appropriate for Democrats today, whose immigration platform has been erected on the wrong side of another 80-20 issue: “Oh what a tangled web we weave / When first we practice to deceive.”
