During Tuesday night’s presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, immigration predictably showed up as a talking point.
“They’re eating the dogs. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of the people that live there,” Trump said of immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, repeating a claim from an unverified social media post that asserted that a “neighbor’s daughter’s friend” had witnessed a cat hanging from a tree at a home where a Haitian neighbor lives. .
On the issue of deporting undocumented people, Harris’ stated stance is that she believes in an “earned pathway to citizenship.” She has stated that she intends to sign into law the. The bill would have introduced tougher standards for the asylum process by requiring migrants to show during initial screenings that they have a reasonable possibility of being granted asylum.
“One thing that the Harris campaign and Democrats need to do is stop running to the right,” Awawdeh says. “The U.S. has long been a place of refuge and sanctuary. … Instead of trying to one-up Trump on Trumpian policies that are horrific, they should be leading with a vision of immigrants as the future.”"The U.S. has long been a place of refuge and sanctuary.
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