Remember when ICE raided a pot growing operation--reportedly legal pot growing, mind you--and found that they not just had illegal immigrant adults working there, but also children? Of course, the usual suspects protested the raid, apparently being totally cool with child labor, so long as they weren't American citizens.
But now we know something about one of the major stakeholders in that company, and it explains a lot about Democrats.
I mean, when someone who was knee-deep in an operation like that gives you money, do you really think he's not going to expect you to cry out when his operation gets busted?
A high-powered investment manager with an ownership stake in marijuana facilities allegedly staffed by children and criminal illegal migrants has poured thousands into mostly Democratic campaigns — and even Republican Nikki Haley’s failed presidential bid.
Although the staffing of pot farms with children and illegal immigrants may violate several laws, there is no illegality with regard to simply maintaining a marijuana grow site in California.
A joint Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) operation in July targeted two marijuana grow sites in Southern California, resulting in the apprehension of hundreds of illegal migrants and the rescue of roughly 14 migrant children. James Rosenwald— a founding partner of Dalton Investments and a direct owner of a large stake in Glass House Brands, the company targeted by the raid — has donated more than $93,000 in support of high-profile Democrats and Democrat-aligned groups over the past decade, according to campaign donation filings reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Glass House Brands and Rosenwald did not respond to multiple requests for comment from the DCNF.
Considering campaign finance laws, that's a lot of money from one person. There are limits to what one can do, after all, and this suggests he pushed those boundaries as much as he could and stay within the law.
But it doesn't look like he took the same diligence in his non-political business, what with making sure that they hired both people here legally and, you know, adults.
Democrats, who got all that money from Rosenwald, among others, are acting like enforcing immigration laws at all is the most horrific thing imaginable. They're demonizing ICE agents and trying to push laws that would put those agents' life at risk, all while taking money from someone who seems to have been explicitly profiting off that illegal labor.
For all the hysteria the left spins on illegal immigration, it really just boils down to wanting to protect their donor class from prosecution, despite them knowingly breaking federal law by employing these people.
The truth is that the left still has its plantations, and since the Democrats had their slaves freed back in the 1860s, they're just using illegal immigrants for the same purposes. It might be marijuana growing instead of fields of cotton, but it doesn't change the fact that Democrats still want their cheap farm labor that has no recourse for any terrible treatment they receive.
Some things never change.
