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Is unlimited immigration really popular among the far left? Sounds more like a libertarian position to me.

After some quick googling I can't find any groups that support that.

I did find a poll that shows 64% of Americans support creating some path for undocumented immigrants to get legal status. I'm not sure you could call 64% a far left position though.



Here's a NYTimes article from 2020 https://archive.md/uJl8t and another from 2025 https://archive.md/5az0U. No one wants the "open borders" label but there was and still remains many who see migrants as the source of their personal salvation.


> After some quick googling I can't find any groups that support that.

They don't "support unlimited immigration", they reject the legitimacy of national borders and of immigration as a concept.

For example here's the DSA explaining their view that the national border and immigration statuses are capitalist and imperialist tools to divide the working class: https://www.dsausa.org/blog/fighting-the-security-state-at-t...


Excellent! Thank you for finding that, my Google fu isn't as strong as it used to be.

I'm still not sure that's representative of the far left. Like I said, the more right wing libertarian position is probably the same, though for different reasons.


> Is unlimited immigration really popular among the far left?

That this is being memory-holed, much like the ill-conceived bilingual education initiatives of the 90s, is actually a good sign, as it's proof that we're winning.




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