Comment by ls612
16 hours ago
Political support is due to people voting for it, and in the US system that is the arbiter of who will get to enact their policies.
16 hours ago
Political support is due to people voting for it, and in the US system that is the arbiter of who will get to enact their policies.
This is true.
Hence the importance of controlling the narrative by spinning unchecked stories about immigrants eating cats, disproportionate rates of murder and crime, ignoring revenue from immigrants paying taxes, etc.
The fact that sufficient people will vote on immigration as an issue is orthogonal to the realities of laws and enforcement rates and entirely predicated upon perception of such issues.