Democrats don’t really want immigration. Their positions are all over the place. In abstracts they say they do, but when in comes to practical points they get cold feet. They are big into “immigrants keep locals wages low,” a very popular position by trade unions. Through credentialism they support policies that keep college-educated foreign-born people from practicing in their areas of education. In education, the lowest paid classroom jobs (sometimes below local minimum wages through exceptions given to government and nonprofit entities) are mostly done by foreign-born women with advanced degrees. Do you remember the practice of keeping women out of the well-paying male jobs in the old times? This practice still exists for foreign-born women, but the divide now is educated in the US vs. educated outside the US (in my experience, this is less of a problem for Northen European, Scandinavian and, partially, French women). Special education in California would not exists without the Latin American, Asian, Southern and Eastern European, and African women with PhDs and Masters doing jobs than in theory only ask for a GED but, in practice require much more complex thinking and education. These women unofficially mentor and jump in to cover for their overwhelmed teachers, teach for them, and resolve problems well outside their pay scale. Meanwhile, the systems keep adding hurdles than in reality are only a way to keep them moving to higher paying jobs. Many times these women followed spouses to the US when they joined a US corporation or institution or were admitted to a higher education program in the US. Many of them left careers in healthcare, the corporate world, education, journalism, you name it, and were never able to find similar jobs in here. Many times, there are true language barriers, but many others the issue is accent discrimination. An African born, British-educated person I know who followed a software engineer spouse told me that she is often told by prospective employers they prefer a native English speaker. She is a native English speaker, just from another English-speaking country. So now she is getting a completely unnecesary degree from an American institution so she can access the types of iobs she used to do and has been unable to get since moving here.