I think that the cartels are funding the campaigns for the democrats. That is why they are so pro open borders and pro crime. Money.
I agree with your statement in part, the most important one you didn’t get to. They want to open borders to have a steady supply of voters they are trying to figure out how to legalize, and some they get the vote from illegally anyway. As long as they can be used to get the libs back in office to accomplish the crap they do, they need open borders. In California, according to Pew Research, over 570T illegals went to the polls and voted alone. In Texas, registering to vote is now an honor system, with no documentation required and no one verifying citizenship – applicants merely check a box affirming they’re U.S. citizens. Your guess on illegal voting is as good as mine. Mine is extremely high, most likely hundreds of thousands. And that’s just two of the states on the border. New Mexico, Arizona, and all of the left coast have the problem. In Washington state, most of the agricultural section in eastern Washington in Mexican. And they do vote.
If the illegals ever turned on them, they’d have them shot on sight probably using the same weapons they are trying to “ban” right now from American citizens that have restrictions on their use that those cartels you mentioned don’t care about and don’t follow. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a dangerous criminal having a CCL so they can carry. They don’t need them and in most cases couldn’t get anything more than a laugh from the approving agency. (Only it ain’t funny)
rwood