Obviously Republicans should want America to be white again, just as Dems want America to become brown. Everyone is vaguely aware of voting patterns, so let's talk about it explicitly.
The way they talked about it was very different from the 80s through about 2008. Dems used to frequently claim to want better border control. In 2006 they voted for a better border fence. Obama, Hillary, and Bill all said things that would never fly today.
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The Dem party in the 90s had an anti-immigration, environmentalist, and anti-globalization wing. That didn't disappear until the Obama era
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Anti-globalization I'll give you, but my assessment has always been that any recent Democratic expression of anti-immigration sentiment was always about electoral triangulation, not conviction
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E.g. they said they opposed illegal immigration because it was electorally unpalatable not to, not because they opposed it.
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The Sierra Club opposition to immigration was genuine, and it only changed post-2000
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As a 1998 vintage shitlib I remember people considering the Sierra Club very regressive and embarrassing for that
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