A co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) was recently asked to clarify their position on open borders and offered up a Kamala Harris word salad in response.
The DSA has already made it pretty clear that they want for there to be no border enforcement at all, so this is a difficult issue for her to defend.
Border enforcement is also another one of those 80-20 issues with massive support from the public. People want America’s borders to be enforced and made that obvious during the 2024 election.
Transcript via the Western Lensman:
DSA Co-Chair Megan Romer is asked to explain the DSA position on ‘open borders.’
The slightest ask for explanation or scrutiny placed on these nonsensical positions results in this rhetorical gobbledygook:
“They’re all part of this long term goal where we are putting huge amounts of resources into alleviating poverty, into stopping destabilization of countries internationally that are causing a huge migrant flow.”
“Most people in the US are here because of a prior period of unrestricted immigration or of much looser immigration.”
“We’re not saying throw the gates open. We’re saying, let’s look at where the system is really flawed, really problematic.”
Interviewer: “I think that’s called immigration reform.”
“It is, but we think that you have to look at all of these things from first principles. Right? We started here from first principles. So what do we want out of an immigration system. Let’s start there.”
Hellbound and Down 