For Dems, illegal aliens are more valuable than you are
Once, immigration was intended to benefit America and Americans. Today, for Democrats, the only benefit allowed is for the immigrants, especially the illegal ones.
Andrea Widburg | March 29, 2026 www.americanthinker.com
One of the most useful aspects of the Trump presidency is that Democrats are no longer hiding their cards. Whether because Trump has driven them mad or because they truly believe Trump is the last gasp of Americanism and that they are on the verge of total control (there’s a scary thought), they’re being very open about their goals.
Currently, their overriding goal is to replace the American population, which is too white and too independent for their tastes. This project started in the 1960s, with Teddy Kennedy’s bill ending immigration based on quotas that favored immigrants from countries with values similar to America’s and who could vouch (or have someone vouch on their behalf) that they would not become a burden to the American taxpayer.
Instead, the new goals were family reunification and workers with needed skills. The former goal quickly outstripped the latter.
That change to the law reshaped America’s demographics. Suddenly, immigrants poured in from Latin America, Asia, Africa, India, and other regions. In the early days, most of these immigrants assimilated because assimilation was still part of the American educational and institutional ethos.
However, as Democrats reclassified assimilation as racism, and our education systems from kindergarten to graduate school taught that America is an evil nation, subsequent generations of illegal immigrants and their children not only did not assimilate but became actively hostile to their new home. You could say that Ilhan Omar is Exhibit A for this mindset.
Moreover, while many immigrant parents may still have been alive to the wonders of America compared to the third world, often totalitarian nations they fled, their children, products of leftist education, had nothing but disdain for this country. This was the case for the people I grew up with. The parents appreciated America. Their children (my former classmates), all of whom graduated from college, do not. As many proudly post on Facebook, they’ve been out on the streets screaming about “No Kings,” “Abolish ICE,” and “Reparations.”
The shift was about more than numbers and demographics. It was also about the answer to that famous Latin question: “Cui bono?” (Who benefits?) Is it America or the immigrants?
After the Civil War, as America was becoming an industrial powerhouse, Congress began passing immigration laws. Some were openly racist in nature, with the most obvious example being the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which explicitly targeted Chinese immigrants. Others, as noted, were intended to benefit European immigrants over others. Most importantly, though, the immigration laws were intended to keep America safe. That is why they used places like Ellis Island to try to keep out people with dangerous infectious diseases.
The laws’ goals were also to benefit America, not just by keeping out what were then believed to be bad apples, but by bringing in something America, with its exploding industrial base, desperately needed: Labor. It didn’t have to be skilled labor. It just needed muscle to run the factories and build the infrastructure for a country growing both internally and through immigration. Congress also needed more farmers, because more people made more food a necessity.
The whole system was highly symbiotic: economic growth required labor, which in turn spurred further growth, etc. One thing, though, was always clear: This wasn’t meant to benefit the immigrants, no matter what was written on the Statue of Liberty. It was meant to benefit America.
Up until the 1960s, everyone understood that assimilation benefited America. The Melting Pot was the thing. Embrace American values, and you will be an American. You can be proud of your heritage, but the melting pot is what counts. (Even Hollywood got in on the act.) And it really was a melting pot when you had Jimmy Cagney showing off his Yiddish (which he spoke fluently).
It’s different now. Democrats are done with Americans—and, more than that, they’re not bothering to hide it anymore. As far as they’re concerned, immigration isn’t about making our country better, stronger, wealthier, and safer.
And we certainly don’t need the muscle, thanks to Democrat and Chamber of Commerce policies that saw so much of our industrial base go to the same countries from which the illegal immigrants now come. Instead, for Democrats, immigration is solely about making life better for illegal aliens, and ensuring that as many come as possible, regardless of their ability to work and stay off of welfare. The salt in the wound is that those who do work, by accepting much lower wages, take jobs from Americans.
Nor is the new immigrants’ criminal or disease status a matter of concern. The man accused of killing Sheridan Gorman is here illegally, was a criminal, has tuberculosis, might have killed her as a gang initiation, and is either completely illiterate or, arguably, mentally retarded—but Loyola University, Gorman’s school, apologized for calling him an illegal immigrant.
Please note, too, that this is no longer about helping people escape from genocide. It’s just about getting them out of their economically backward, often crime-ridden countries, so they can bring those values here.
And again, Democrats are not apologetic; they’re proud. A couple of years ago, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CN) explained that the people whom Democrats care most about are illegal aliens:
A couple of days ago, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), herself an immigrant from India, stated plainly that she wants illegal aliens given reparations for the trauma of ICE enforcement:
And of course, the Democrats have been blowing apart American security in a time of war, and making air travel a nightmare, for one purpose only: to make it impossible for ICE to deport illegal aliens.
The useful idiots are all on board with this. They hate America and dream of a nation that has the distinct vibe of the worst parts of the third world (maybe Haiti) combined with downtown San Francisco, Los Angeles, or Chicago. But the rest of America had better wise up and vote Republican, or else the Democrats’ dream will become all of our nightmares.
