The first week of Donald Trump's second President's second President fell into an irritated Democratic member.
He is thrown by them (and the country), so they have a serious problem to think about what they react -without it how. He has signed dozens of administrative orders. I tried to overhaul the government with a serious power. A signed law with a signed controversy. And in the process, he further divided his opposition because he experienced the identity crisis that rose rapidly after the loss of Camara Harris.
Immigration policy is a typical example of this struggle. Long ago, when Harris became a candidate, the party was discussing how to adapt to Trump's promise of anti -immigration campaign and the general shifts of American people to general immigrants. Since he was appointed, the Democratic members are not really lined up to resist all of the president's anti -immigration movements.
The party is currently divided into about three camps. The Senate and the House of Representatives are trying to support Trump for specific strict immigration measures, as in the recently passed Layken Lily method. A person who supports his position but sees the ingredients torn by the voting method. And a progressive that commits to resist all the movements of immigrants.
Today's public opinion is one of the main contributors of the gap. Americans support more restrictive immigration policies. Democratic losses in November are another contributor in areas where large immigrants or non -white population are.
However, members are also facing long historical dynamics that have previously divided the worker class and immigrants. Newly documented immigrants appear to bring both economic competition and threats to the sense of existing identity for immigrants who have already lived in the United States and those who have raised new generations. I have it. By combining with the resurrected Republican Party using some of these emotions, these facts may now complicate democratic reactions to Trump.
The division of the working class and immigrants is not new
Last year's campaign trails, Trump and other Republican politicians repeated specific inferences when making pitches for non -white voters. Black, Latin, union workers. Trump called it “Economic War.”
The deployment line, which has already taken economic opportunities from people in the United States, was a source of tension for both historically born Americans and elderly immigrants.
Many economics behind this have been challenged by economists, but politics is still effective. The main claim here is that the influx of low -skilled low -skilled workers not only reduces the cost of the product, but also adversely affect American workers to existing existence by lowering wages. However, this evidence that is actually happening is thin. Immigration creates demand by purchasing new items and using new services, and thus producing more employment. Still, this idea remains popular.
Until the civil rights era, this idea created a split between the left -wing activist movements to ensure better working conditions and legal protection. Take up the Mexican Cesar Chavez case, the most symbolic person of the Latin Labor Movement. Immigrant workers can help the boss of a company break or alleviate the pressure of labor attacks because his movements to secure farm workers' better conditions faced the challenge from the union. , His efforts for immigrants have brought a more radical change.
Chavez's unified farm workers began an illegal campaign in the 1970s. This is an attempt to connect the people's opposition to immigrants and crack down on illegal crossing to government officials. UFW subsidizes the patrol efforts of the vigilante along the tropical border that tries to enforce immigration restrictions when the government is not sufficiently going, and Chavez imposes their obligations. The federal agencies in charge of border and immigration were publicly accused. Arrested unrivaled immigrants across borders.
Of course, Chavez's views are subtle, mainly, mainly for the 19th and 20th centuries early in the 19th and 20th century, on behalf of farm workers and workers, they will create and strengthen unions that can defend. I am rooted in my goal. However, they are a great example of deep roots that have a threat to economic and identity status when complicating the views of past workers and non -white people in the past.
This specific opinion is stuck. Gallup polling since the early 1990s found that most of the past 30 years, Americans tend to maintain the opinion of “the Lord of the Lord” by “lowering the wages of many Americans”. I did. And the sway in immigration emotions tends to match the national economy's nation and health. If you feel that there is a shortage of economic opportunities, during the inflation period after the pandemic, illegal immigrants tend to bring back legal, legal and more generous emotions.
The Democratic Party is also facing the issues of anti -immigrants
Probably this era of immigration politics, in addition to these existing economic reasons, is a bit more complicated by many non -white Americans, and even immigrants from the previous generation, additional to fairness and order. I'm worried.
U.S. Representatives Juan Bargas, who is a progressive Democratic member who represents a part of California, who is bordered by San Diego and Mexico, means that both recent immigrants are not legal or not. I told me that there was a feeling that there was. This sensation about not paying membership fees is again a long -standing emotional immigrant group that exceeds the history of the United States, but it seems to have been updated after the pandemic. Older immigrants feel that they are working hard and waiting for their turn, but they have less struggle than they have or have a new person. I feel that.
Bargas told me about a conversation with a member of the district and told him not to agree to his attitude on immigration policy, despite being “illegally encountered”.
“I started talking to her, and she said,” I know, these new immigrants, they get everything. They come here and get everything I think we should be forced to leave anything because we didn't get anything. “I said,” Oh, you don't think you should get the same opportunity because you were given a chance? “She says,” Well, that's not the case. ” … How do you really do it? How is it different? … and she didn't have a good answer. “
This is a part of the concept of “law and order” to immigrant researchers. Fold the border execution and the suppression of immigrants, the repression of crackdowns with new needs for the harsh crime policy after the pandemic era. Last year, political scientists, Matthew, explained to me the American segment. Many were non -white or immigrants. They are conflicting the order at the southern border, how the government is managing it, and how their own community is at risk of the collapse of the system. He said he felt. They come into mind that the emotions of anxiety and crime are fused with the state of immigrants, and that the broken systems are making some benefits.
These views can help you explain why there are groups of Democrats, including the Latin Democratic Party. Latin Democratic Party members cooperate with Trump and Republican members, especially immigrants who take a strict criminal approach that promotes expulsion of abroad for immigrants that are not documented. I want to work concretely about reform. With a specific crime.
Approximately 46 House of Representatives Democratic Party and 12 Senate Democrats will probably vote for the Lake Rayye Law, including Ruben Ga Garego Senate, who is probably the most loud Latin Democratic Party member of Arizona. Ta. He argued that the bill indicates the location of the Latin mainstream in the immigrant. “People are worried about border security, but I also want a sane path for immigration reform. That's what I represent. I really represent the middle view of Arizona. Arizona is. Galego, mainly worker class and Latin, “Galego said after the voting.
Even some Democrats in the solid blue area of the country have agreed to some extent. Representative of Houston, Trump's first presidential position, Sylvester Tatner Democratic Party member of the Democratic Party of the Immigration's right, has not been charged with his configuration, which is not particularly charged with violent crime. He said that it strictly supported immigration policies. He himself did not vote for the Layken Lilly Law because he opposed the application for a bill, in contrast to those who were accused or accused of being accused by crime, but he supports other types of proposals. He said he felt a general delegation.
“People want to make the border safer,” he told me. “People do not want a person who committed a serious and violent crime in this country. I am not opposed [Trump] Securing a border, I do not oppose the expulsion of the individual who committed a serious crime. “
What Democrats can I agree
All of these are divided into how the Democratic Party is reacting to Trump, leaving the party that seems to be unite than they want, but that reflects where the masses are. 。 They generally have a bold statement about reducing both legal and illegal immigrants, they want something Although they were on the border, they do not necessarily want to be expelled abroad for the dreamers who have been illegally brought to the United States as a child or non -documented.
Since Trump's victory, no Democratic representatives I spoke do not believe that the party should abandon immigrants as value, but they are also divided because their members are divided. I understand that it is necessary to be strategic.
For example, when he attempts to overview of the right -handed rights, they fight against Trump, but they don't necessarily criticize the continuous construction of the boundary walls with Mexico or the increase in overseas expulsion. They point out that most expulsions using military aircraft are for shows, but standard ice characteristic airplanes can do less work. Many people, for example, support the ultra -bordered border bills that Biden tried to pass less than a year ago, theoretically supports it again.
They oppose the idea of ”large -scale expulsion”, but, as the Senator Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy recently, we believe that they really want to be expelled to the target.
And they have room to protect their dreamers, Daca winners, and those who have benefited from asylum protection, such as temporary protected positions. Because they see moral and political value in it. Voting supports these nuances.
“I passed our school and started talking about the expulsion of a dreamer in this country who graduated from our university, and now I can contribute to this society. Turner said.” Outside of children. Speaking of expulsion, going to a church, school, or harassing our children, if you want to take back the bill, the Republican members and the Democratic Party will sign you last year. I'm ready, so I think you'll find support. “
Thus, these nuances of these immigration policy are a bit of the comprehensive questions that the Democratic Party is working on. So far, they have chosen their battles and choose. But public opinion does not stay steady forever, and the opposition must evolve together.
