If Liberals Won’t Enforce Borders, Fascists Will

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(03-11-2019, 04:34 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Are there really any US Congressmembers who say we should have "open borders"?

Oh yeah. There are also many who support crime and hate America.

As for the article, I only read into it. I don't believe a too lenient immigration policy creates a significant rise of fascism. Stupid people create a significant rise of fascism. If their rise is fueled by mostly manufactured immigration problems or by too little gold medals at the olympics doesn't really matter that much. Whoever believes Soros pays politicians to willfully ruin their own country doesn't need a valid reason for any fascist sentiment, just a skilled, anti-intellectual demagogue with a supporting network and lots of social media.

A country sure needs a meaningful immigration policy, which requires strictness and tough decisions at times. I'm sure there were mistakes made and it's legitimate to critizise them or factor that in at the voting booth. But I think it's wrong to enact certain policies just to counter the fascism danger. I think that doesn't help much and only empowers certain figures. 
(Our own socialist party, once the main force in our politics, tried that approach time after time, to get way tougher on immigration to stop the rise of the right wing populists. It didn't help.)