Je Suis Martha's Vineyard!
Democrats do grasp the issue of illegal immigration. Every argument they make about Martha's Vineyard proves it. Just as Martha's Vineyard was neither structurally prepared nor should be expected to deliver aid to 50 "illegal migrants" (who were not even Mexican), the United States is similarly unprepared, nor should be expected, to accept a flood of illegals across its borders.
Cities like Eagle Pass, Laredo and Del Rio in Texas, and Bisbee, Nogales and Yuma in Arizona have been making that same argument for years.
The first duty of the governments of that small island off the coast of Massachusetts is the same as the first duties the aforementioned cities bear - it is to the people who legally live there, the same duty the federal government of the United States has to its people.
But please allow me the liberty to speak in a language the left and the Democrats understand. I call it Signalisation de la Vertu or SiVe for short. Of course, that's just virtue signaling in French, but it sounds much more sophisticated and so less futile when you say it in a foreign language. French makes it sound fancy and official and not at all useless.
If you recall, back in 2015 the Paris offices of the hard core satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, were attacked by Islamofascists for the "crime" of insulting Islam. Twelve people were killed. Within 24 hours, the Facebook and Twitter armies of the west had their SiVe marching slogan.
Je Suis Charlie! (I Am Charlie!) was plastered across social media as a sign of meaningless solidarity because, of course, nobody posting that slogan, just as those who posted the Ukrainian flag, was going to do a damned thing about anything - and they didn't.
So, following in that vein, allow me to be the first to recognize that while the Democrats clearly have a grasp of the problem just as we did in Paris in 2015, they will do absolutely nothing to solve it.
Je Suis Martha's Vineyard!
"Solving the problem" would take it off of the political table and eliminate talking points. Pourquoi les démocrates font-ils cela?
Mais bien sûr, ils ne font rien! ( 5 yrs of French class, still have to translate.)