Immigration is a terrible issue for the Democrats

Politico reports:

The Trump administration’s increasingly aggressive moves on immigration are pulling Democrats back into a border security debate they had tried to ignore.

For months, Democrats scarred by the politics of the issue sought to sidestep President Donald Trump’s immigration wars — focusing instead on the economy, tariffs or, in the case of deportations, due process concerns.

But in the span of a week, that calculation was jolted in California, after a series of high-profile raids and arrests, including of a labor union leader and dozens of other people in Los Angeles, and with President Donald Trump on Saturday announcing the deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops to the area.

In this citadel of Democratic politics, party officials from the governor’s mansion to city halls are suddenly tearing into Trump on immigration again, inflaming a debate that worked to Trump’s benefit in 2024 — but where Democrats believe they now have a political opening.

No they don’t. Having Democratic officials complain that Trump is too aggressively deporting illegal aliens just reminds people of the porous border they had under Biden. Gallup has only 16% of Americans saying they want more immigration.

The next day, when Trump announced the Guard’s deployment, Democrats rushed to take a stand in a fight shifting from deportations to the deployment of the Guard. Gov. Gavin Newsom blasted the measure as “purposefully inflammatory.” And when Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth threatened to deploy the U.S. military, too, Newsom posted on social media, “This is deranged behavior.”

I am no Trump fan, but he is playing the Democrats for suckers here. He deployed the National Guard hoping it would be decried by Newsom and co. The average American doesn’t sympathise with rioters interfering with law enforcement, especially as they wave Mexican flags.