I caution Republican friends from popping their corks too early. Imagine a Democratic multibillionaire pays to resettle 1000s of illegal immigrants in “Operation Alfombra de Bienvenida.”
Playing political chess w human beings as pawns is going to keep escalating. And backfiring.

I agree that a key is to return costs to any and all who cynically weaponize immigration. But Democrats do not in any way have the monopoly here. Republican employers can be wretched trying to flood labor markets to destroy fellow citizens’ positions at the bargaining table.

Moral: I’d be rather careful exchanging a correct and permanently defensible ethical position for a transient optical victory using illegal aliens as pawns against a cynical opponent that will likely adapt to a new opportunity to play the immigration optics game right back atcha.

Note Added: it’s amazing to read bot-like responses that somehow now see what I wrote as towing a Democratic Party line. I’m writing as a human who is a reluctant restrictionist against 2 political parties weaponizing the best traditions of US openness.
Read-More-Carefully.🙏