Julio Ricardo Varela: This is who we are. As a nation, we should be outraged. Sadly, we are not.
“We have to save our country,” Trump said on Wednesday night. “When you say to a family that if you come, we are going to break you up, they don’t come.”
How different is that from Mayorkas vowing to punish migrants who don’t seek asylum according to his arbitrary new rules? The upcoming 2024 election cycle is already eerily similar to other recent election cycles. Immigration will still be a wedge issue. Republicans know that, and so do Democrats. Withbefore this week’s news about Title 42, Republicans can easily exploit “Biden’s border crisis” and continue churning out the falsehood that migrants from our south are coming to terrorize our nation.
“We are bracing for some turbulent times ahead,” DeSantis said Wednesday, when he signed Florida’s restrictive immigration bill. “When you have a president that has turned a blind eye to the border … when you have that, you are likely to see it get a lot worse.”Republicans have won the immigration debate. Democrats got crushed and knocked out. The only way to counteract decades of Republican xenophobia is to offer concrete alternatives to GOP policy.
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