Biden’s open border is tearing the Democratic Party apart
Conn Carroll
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Obstructing an official legislative proceeding is beginning to become quite the Democratic Party tactic.
After Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) was caught on tape pulling a fire alarm that delayed a House of Representatives vote on a continuing resolution this September, Chicago Alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa has now resigned from office after trying to prevent a quorum on a vote that would have set up a voter referendum on repealing Chicago’s sanctuary city status.
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What exactly happened between Ramirez-Rosa and Aldermen Emma Mitts is still in dispute. Ramirez-Rosa denies that he ever “put his hands” on Mitts, while Mitts has relayed conflicting accounts of what happened. But a statement posted last Friday by the Chicago Alderman Black Caucus accused Ramirez-Rosa of “physical and verbal harassment” of Mitts, who, the statement notes, is the council’s “current longest-serving woman.”
What is not in dispute, however, is that Ramirez-Rosa was outside the Chicago City Council Chambers last Thursday trying to convince his fellow aldermen not to enter so that aldermen Anthony Beale and Ray Lopez would be denied the quorum needed to vote on the resolution. Ramirez-Rosa succeeded in stopping the vote, as Beale and Lopez fell one alderman short of the 26-vote quorum requirement.
“Migrant asylum-seekers continue to be sent here by Democrat & Republican leaders across the United States because of our Welcoming City Ordinance,” Lopez said Friday. “Progressive/liberal narrators keep saying one has nothing to do with the other in an attempt to divorce consequence from action. Chicagoans understand this which is why they want a voice (and vote) on the matter.”
Alderman Beale added, “I have a bleeding heart for people that come here that are honestly trying to do better for themselves. I’m with that, but I’m telling you one thing, I’m with my people more.”
Native Chicago residents have been highly critical of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s plans to use city resources to house the tens of thousands of immigrants who have come to Chicago after being released into the country by President Joe Biden.
“You want to take the little scraps of resources we have and put us at the bottom of the barrel? That’s not fair!” one Chicago woman said at a meeting about city plans to turn a neighborhood field house into an immigrant shelter. “A lot of these young boys, they don’t have fathers, so a lot of these coaches, they are their fathers. They spend part of their weekend here along with during the week, that keeps them in a safe place, it gives them mentorship, it shows them discipline.”
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Chicago’s black residents are not the only ones unhappy with Biden’s open-border policies. As John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira note, Hispanics along the border in Texas are tired of Biden’s policies, too. “According to a survey by Equis Research, 61% of Hispanics in South Texas wanted spending on border security boosted and 58% wanted the number of asylum seekers limited — higher than the national average on both issues. In other words, significant numbers of Hispanics favored policies that they thought would reduce illegal immigration. The Democrats were out of step with the people they assumed were their loyal base.”
If Democrats want to know why Biden is currently losing to former President Donald Trump in five out of the six closest swing states, his failed immigration policies should be at the top of the list.