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Maybe her rant on "guaranteed jobs" means the end of welfare.
You bring up a good point (and also what I might refer to as the "elephant in the room"): why are labor unions/Democrats supporting illegal immigration now? Traditionally they have not, and were against it, as recently as a few years ago, as immigrant labor tends to suppress blue collar wages. If anything, Republicans (as typified by business owners) tended to support immigrant labor, as it supplied cheap labor to their businesses and diluted union labor's bargaining power. So, politically we are upside down now.
Could it really be as simple as "Democrats want the votes" of the flood of illegals? I tend to say yes.
The Supreme Court dealt labor unions a sharp defeat Wednesday, ruling that teachers, police officers and other public employees cannot be forced to pay dues or fees to support their unions.
By a 5 to 4 vote, the justices overturned a 41-year-old precedent and ruled that the 1st Amendment protects these employees from being required to support a private group whose views may differ from theirs.
The decision, in Janus vs. AFSCME, strikes down laws in California, New York and 20 other mostly Democratic-leaning states that authorize unions to negotiate contracts that require all employees to pay a so-called fair share fee to cover the cost of collective bargaining.