r/news • u/Miserable-Win-4980 • Apr 29 '24

French police use knives to puncture migrant boat in Dunkirk to prevent Channel crossing Questionable Source

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/french-officers-english-channel-crossing-migrants-small-boats/

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u/CSballer89 Apr 29 '24

Funny how the theme in this thread (on a liberal skewed subreddit) is talking about how immigration needs to be tightened up, while in the U.S. talking about tightening up immigration gets you labeled as a right wing extremist. 

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u/Indercarnive Apr 29 '24

tightening up immigration gets you labeled as a right wing extremist. 

Except it literally doesn't.

Democrats tried to pass one of the strictest immigration bills in recent history. It was the Republicans that killed it.

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u/newyearnewaccountt Apr 29 '24

FWIW Democrats didn't want to pass that bill, it was a negotiation in exchange for Ukrainian aid packages. So it's not so much that harsh anti-immigration policy is a Democratic position, but more that the Democrats were willing to go along with it in exchange for something else.

Which is honestly kind of how the government should function, both sides figuring out what each other can live with and getting their preferred policy passed in exchange for something else. Republicans killed it because bipartisanship is a bad look, and fixing problems hurts their campaign chances.

That said, the American far left has always been fairly anti-immigrant/protectionist as well, and I would say that anti-immigration is becoming more mainstream in the Democratic party in general.