Immigration Reform Is About Votes

As we watch Republican senators being danced around the floor by their gleeful Democrat squires, we shouldn’t allow this spectacle to cause us to lose sight of a simple truth.  Despite the whispered promises and pledges of fidelity, immigration reform is and has always been about increasing the number of Democrat voters, especially through the use of illegal immigrants. 

There are some things that are so demonstrably true that you can never go wrong relying upon them: whenever a Democrat seeks bipartisanship, the Democrat intends to win all he seeks while conceding nothing of value.  Similarly, whenever a Democrat quashes something as logical and obvious as proof of a right to vote legally, the Democrat does so in recognition of the threat posed by proceeding lawfully.

Those two realities, among others, collide in the charade that is immigration reform.  As played out at federal and state levels, Democrats act uniformly to enable illegals to vote, both by shouting down voter ID laws as “racist” and by rushing to bestow the trappings of citizenship on illegals in the form of driver’s licenses and other official government ID consistently accepted at polling places.  Combined with motor-voter registration at departments of motor vehicles around the country, granting driver’s licenses to illegals is a dream come true for the Democrats in those seemingly few places where the requirement of an ID has not been struck by an activist in a robe.

While voting is a right of citizenship, it is a right limited by proof of entitlement.  Unlike other constitutional rights, which do not come with express qualifications for entitlement, the right to vote is expressly contingent upon proof of the elements of citizenship.  If voter ID laws were enforced from the point of issuance to the polling place, they would serve as a form of gatekeeper at the polls to prevent those who cannot prove the elements of the right to vote from doing so falsely.  The left understands this risk and has mobilized accordingly, particularly from the bench.  We are loudly scolded that blacks and Hispanics, who need and obtain ID for everything else they do in our society, are situationally disabled when it comes to obtaining ID.

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