It may sound like wishful partisanship at first glance to argue that Democrats want the U.S. border to keep surging with hundreds of thousands of unvetted illegal aliens, but that's what a Border Patrol leader is warning, not some partisan hack.

President Trump's immigration policies are steadily curbing the flow of illegal immigrants [sic] across our southern border — but some Democrats are determined to keep the humanitarian catastrophe going for as long as possible for political gain and at America's expense.

Based on the Democrats' upcoming bag of legislative and legal tricks that Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, the chief labor union representing the agency, described, it's pretty obvious that they miss the border crisis and want a new one.

Some Democrats were already seething over a series of recent court rulings that upheld President Trump's border initiatives, and now that the success of those initiatives has become apparent, they're anxious to hamstring our enforcement efforts and reverse our recent progress. According to Politico, some House Democrats are looking for "payback" for Trump's immigration tactic, raising concerns that open-borders hardliners in the Democratic caucus might try to block funding for immigration enforcement agencies, such as the Border Patrol and ICE. "There is a greater and greater sense in the Democratic Party that any support of the administration's policies is giving cover to moral wrongdoing," Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna explained. Remarkably, the 2020 Democrat presidential candidates are even more radical on immigration than their colleagues in Congress. For these extremists, obstructing President Trump's border security agenda is small potatoes — their explicit objective is to "decriminalize" illegal immigration, turning America into a country with, in effect, no borders at all. As if that weren't radical enough, on the second day of their presidential primary debate in June, every Democrat on the stage openly admitted that they would support providing "free" (i.e., taxpayer-funded) health care to every single illegal alien in the country.

So aside from trying to thwart President Trump from enforcing the law and end incentives for illegal immigration in courts, along with open-borders political stances, they're now going for the jugular, making moves to cut off all funding for the border patrol, an essential mission of government practiced by every nation in the world, in every era in history. It's as if they are attempting to erase the U.S., the very source of their power now.

Border surges are so politically useful to them, not just for the potentially illegal voters, or for the voters of "Mi Familia Vota," but for the future voters of the Democratic Party. They can't sell socialism to most ordinary Americans anymore, but they sure as heck can sell it to the same sort of people who ecstatically voted for leaders such as Hugo Chávez, who promised them the moon and more free stuff. Sure enough, their agenda and promises are not at all different from Chávez's, particularly with their new threats to tax big oil to pay for their social spending programs, promising free stuff to everyone, even foreigners present here illegally.

Besides that, a border surge is highly useful for Democrats based on the media coverage, focused on migrant sob stories, crying toddlers, and tales of "caged children" that Democrats have made such political hay of. Nothing like dishonestly portraying President Trump as "heartless," and there's no better way of doing that than putting the cameras on the toddlers being used for just this purpose.

This needs to be a campaign issue for President Trump. Drive it home that there are vested interests, resting in not just the Mexican cartels, but in the Democrats who thrive on a border crisis and are busy at work looking to ensure a new one.

The Border Patrol guy's warning of a new funding crisis may sound alarmist, but given the extremism of the Democrats and their church and NGO and media allies, it may not be alarmist at all. At stake is whether we have borders or don't have borders. President Trump has fought like a tiger to ensure we do have borders, and he's actually succeeding. That's a crisis for Democrats, and now they're willing to go into insane mode to destroy that success.

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