By John Perazzo
The truth behind the Democrats' deliberate strategy of "Crashing the Border"
A pivotal booklet
published this week by the David Horowitz Freedom Center reveals the true
stakes in the ongoing crisis engulfing America's southern border. In "Crashing the
Border: The Left's Manufactured Crisis,"
DiscovertheNetworks.org editor John Perazzo examines the deliberate
strategy employed by Democratic politicians and leftist activists to stress and
overwhelm our border security apparatus to its breaking point.
The resulting crisis will then be used as a pretext to enact policies, such as amnesty, that will radically transform America's political landscape and illegally import millions of future Democratic voters. “Over the years, Americans had become so accustomed to this problem and so desensitized by all the banal explanations of its causes... that they tended to accept the tsunami of illegal migration as part of the inevitable and inexorable movement of populations away from pain and toward promise. But this was a fiction,” writes author Perazzo.
“In fact, the problem was the product of a concerted effort by which Democratic legislators and their ideological allies in the 'immigrant rights' movement sought to overwhelm and undermine America's border security and immigration system by importing millions of people who could be expected to eventually become reliable Democrat voters for decades to come.”
As Perazzo's careful research reveals, this strategy has a name and a long pedigree among leftist protest movements. “The Cloward-Piven Strategy” - named for former Columbia University sociologists and Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) leaders Richard Cloward and his wife, Frances Fox Piven - posits that activists can effect radical change by “crashing the system.” [more...]
John Perazzo is the editor of discoverthenetworks.org and author of The
New Shame of the Cities.
