As Chicago and other blue cities move toward reparations for African Americans, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D, Wa.) wants reparations for illegal immigrants for the trauma caused by immigration enforcement. At the same time, various Democrats are making clear that they want to entirely defund and eliminate Immigration and Customs Enforcement. So, after the Biden Administration allowed in millions over an open border, Democrats would eliminate ICE and some like Jayapal would pay illegal immigrants reparations.
Rep. Jayapal declared on Friday:
“They need to be brought before us, and they need to be held account [sic] for the trauma that they have created, and we are going to have to have some form of reparation for the kids and the families that have been traumatized through all of this.”
While not calling for reparations, other democrats have picked up the theme that someone has to pay for the trauma caused by immigration enforcement.
Rep. Maxine Dexter (D, Or.) echoed the mantra of Democratic members that “The administration has terrorized our communities and mine in the Willamette Valley.”
Rep. Christian Menefee (D-TX) told constituents, “I can’t imagine seeing my kid in a jail cell just because of where he was born, just because of what language he speaks at home.”
Jayapal fought back tears in her “shadow hearing” on Friday after calling for reparations, stating, “I still cannot believe that we are doing this to our own children.”
U.S.-born President Donald Trump is the outsider, Jayapal argued: “When the founders put into the Constitution the idea that Congress would have power, they assumed that the party that was in control of Congress would stand up to a dictatorial, authoritarian president.”
Jayapal did not mention the many American children killed by what she called “our” migrants.
The question becomes, if more groups get reparations, when does this become a form of wealth redistribution? Indeed, according to these members, much of the country has been traumatized by the Trump Administration. What is missing in cities like Chicago facing economic meltdowns is any notion of financial limits. Instead, Democrats are pushing tax hikes and wealth taxes to cover bloated budgets and growing deficits.
If we do not stop this ideology now, while we still have the minimum of demographic advantage, we will succumb to this whirlpool of the poor eating us alive. Sure, in the end, this nation will end up like Cuba or Venezuela, but we will be gone and our children will reap this devastation. The progs on this site may call me made, but just a glimpse at history will tell you otherwise. There is not alternative ending to communism/socialism/atheism. it will not end well, but, at 75, what do I need worry about? I worry for my children and grandchildren. Welfare allowed the sustainment of millions who now begin to outnumber the “worker bees” and they will continue to press for more free stuff until the well is dry, just as we see in any communist nation so far. I fear for my children and grandchildren as they will be subsumed in the coming chaos if we do not stop this mindset now.
Turley’s latest defense of this administration is a masterclass in ignoring reality. He’s so focused on his talking points that he missed ICE shredding the Constitution and the DOJ’s creative relationship with the truth. But hey, it’s hard to hear over the sound of the GOP imploding—even the CPAC crowd is cheering for impeachment now, no matter how many times the emcee begs them to stop.
Between the desperate push for the SAVE Act to cheat the midterms and the ‘victory’ in a multi-billion dollar Iran war that literally nobody else thinks we won, the desperation is loud. Trump managed to alienate NATO, tank the economy, and put us on the verge of a ground war all at once. It’s a classic Republican cycle: start a fruitless war, blow the budget, and then act surprised when a Democratic majority has to show up to fix the disaster. Better get the brooms ready; this mess is going to take a while.
Democrats fix the disaster?? They started it!!
Preparations!! Be prepared to be deported!!
I am in favor of reparations. All assets of the Democratic Party should be seized and used to pay reparations to (1) descendants of those enslaved in the US (the Democratic Party was founded to protect slavery and later opposed emancipation) and to (2) families of victims of violent crimes committed by illegal immigrants (who were admitted into the US and protected by Democratic administrations).