Thread by @almostjingo

🗳1. No one ever talks about DAPA?
While Democrats can cry all day about the “humanity” of immigration, DREAMERS and keeping families together the truth is, it’s ALL ABOUT GETTING VOTES and this 2015 report by CAP had zero shame in admitting just that.

2. According to the report (keep in mind this is totally separate from DACA) they wanted to zero in on how many voters they’d get from pushing it. In the 42 pages there’s no mention of quality of life because they don’t actually care. 3.7 future voters qualified for DAPA.

3. They zeroed in on the citizens that lived with undocumented which was 6.3 million, meaning 6.3 million anchor babies, that’s right because they’re parents aren’t legal but they are. What were they obsessed with? It meant 6.2 mil delicious voters by 2032 (this is 4 years ago)

4. Changing the demographics, nom nom how we will win these States based on doing illegal aliens a solid. They were confident it would give them Colorado, Florida, Nevada and maybe even North Carolina. They weren’t wrong (FL scary close)

5. Each state was broken down based on when anchor babies would turn 18 (sorry if that word triggers you) all of this was assuming they would OWN the vote because these kids would be indebted to them for keeping their parents, talk about emotional manipulation.

6. The grand prize, a big blob of blue. At no point did they consider what #immigrationreform might do because then these juicy voters wouldn’t “owe” them. This was just DAPA, just LEGAL voters. How many voters do they see in DACA? @DHSgov still hasn’t released the total number.

7. America deserves transparency on these programs, both sides like to stick to the same number but at least CAP exposed 6.3 anchor babies who paid for their births? Their insurance? Their school? You did suckers.
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