Have Immigrants Hit The Wall?

“After casting her “angry liberal” vote on Tuesday, psychiatrist and Coney Island, N.Y., resident Ellen Weinberg looked past the fence and wall guarding the entrance to her gated community and declared, “We have a right to protect our quality of life” and then added “even if it means putting up a wall.”

The good news for the Jamaican, Dominican, Chinese and other immigrants living in the tall, crowded projects just a block away, is that Weinberg cast a vote that caused the fall of the GOP, the party of the red border wall. The bad news for immigrants across the country is that her angry vote helped bring about the rise of the party of the blue border wall, the Democrats. “A wall at the [U.S.-Mexico] border protects our standard of living,” said Weinberg, whose conservative, national security-infused positions on immigration mirror those of a significant number of those Democrats””liberal, moderate and conservative””elected to the House and Senate Tuesday night.”

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