There’s a shift in Republican rhetoric away from attacks on the Biden economy and toward dire warnings about ‘migrant crime.’
Katie Britt, the junior senator from Alabama, delivered the Republican response last week to the State of the Union address. Her overwrought performance has been widely mocked; that’s OK for late-night TV, but I’m not going to join in that chorus.
To really understand the significance of her de facto lie, however, we need to put it in political context. If I were a Republican strategist, I’d be especially worried about the changing tone of news coverage. The San Francisco Fed maintains a daily index of “news sentiment.” In the summer of 2023, although the economy was arguably already performing pretty well, this index was roughly as low as it was in the depths of the Great Recession. Since then, however, it has shot up to levels roughly comparable to those that prevailed on the eve of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The other day, for example, he declared, “I will stop the killing, I will stop the bloodshed, I will end the agony of our people, the plunder of our cities, the sacking of our towns, the violation of our citizens and the conquest of our country.” Which towns and cities, exactly, have been sacked and plundered? Did Attila the Hun swing by for a visit while I wasn’t looking?
Without question, the killing of Laken Riley, for which an immigrant in the country illegally has been charged, is devastating. But in a country as big as ours, it’s almost always possible to find examples of unspeakable tragedies involving individual members of whatever group you name. There are probably more than 10 million immigrants in the United States illegally. Based on the available evidence, however, immigrants are less likely than native-born Americans to commit crimes.
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