{"id":16501,"date":"2025-02-24T13:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T13:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16501"},"modified":"2025-02-24T13:29:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T13:29:13","slug":"how-democrats-should-and-shouldnt-moderate-on-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16501","title":{"rendered":"How Democrats should \u2014 and shouldn\u2019t \u2014 moderate on immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Few things do more to increase humanity\u2019s aggregate prosperity than allowing people to migrate from less wealthy nations to the United States. And the immense benefits that immigrants derive from moving to the US do not come at the expense of native-born Americans. To the contrary, in the long term, immigration makes Americans&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.epi.org\/publication\/u-s-benefits-from-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more prosperous<\/a>, while rendering the country\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/articles\/how-immigration-reforms-could-bolster-social-security-and-medicare-solvency-and-address-direct-care-workforce-issues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">retirement programs<\/a>&nbsp;more secure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Precisely because immigration is so beneficial, however, it\u2019s imperative for Democrats to forge a politically tenable approach to the issue. The party should neither embrace full-bore restrictionism nor project complacency about chaos at the border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, Democrats must make American politics safe for mass immigration. Maintaining the party\u2019s recent pivot toward more aggressive border enforcement and less lenient asylum policies is likely necessary for achieving that goal.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/392104\/immigration-surge-trump-biden-democrats-moderate-border\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/392104\/immigration-surge-trump-biden-democrats-moderate-border<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Few things do more to increase humanity\u2019s aggregate prosperity than allowing people to migrate from less wealthy nations to the United States. And the immense benefits that immigrants derive from moving to the US do not come at the expense of native-born Americans. To the contrary, in the long term, immigration makes Americans more prosperous, while rendering the country\u2019s retirement programs more secure.<br \/>\nPrecisely because immigration is so beneficial, however, it\u2019s imperative for Democrats to forge a politically tenable approach to the issue. The party should neither embrace full-bore restrictionism nor project complacency about chaos at the border.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Democrats must make American politics safe for mass immigration. Maintaining the party\u2019s recent pivot toward more aggressive border enforcement and less lenient asylum policies is likely necessary for achieving that goal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/392104\/immigration-surge-trump-biden-democrats-moderate-border<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[988,1262,26,493,25],"class_list":["post-16501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-democratic-party","tag-democrats","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigrants","tag-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16503,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16501\/revisions\/16503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}