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And on the other hand, it doesn't look like pretending there is no crisis with immigration, or that a gang member is equivalent to a doctor.
And it certainly doesn't look like treating due process as an inconvenient bureaucratic anachronism that must be sidestepped in a crisis.
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I'm not sure if there is a path back from this place or what it looks like, but I know what it doesn't look like. It doesn't look like lying about the number of migrants who've entered the country or spouting baseless and incoherent conspiracies about importing voters.
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I wish we had a sensible conversation about immigration, and I wish that I wasn't receiving messages wishing rape and murder upon myself and my children because I stand *in all cases* for due process.
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And if Democrats deny that there are any problems with immigration policy, they only gaslight the right and fuel the conspiracy theories and misinformation that come back in response.
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It's not crazy to think that people coming into our country should assimilate into our culture and adopt our values. And it's not crazy to insist that they come through legal channels.
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Of course the data shows they got expelled at a higher rate than during Trump's term, but perception matters. It's also not crazy to think that we should have some limits on immigration or to care about whether the people coming here are law-abiding and have useful skills.
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I happen to be a centrist on this issue. And I think the left has it wrong in a lot of ways. It's a legit question why there was an increase in migrants crossing during Biden's term & whether that was due to a perception on their part that they'd have a better chance of staying.
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There are sensible positions on immigration on both sides of the political spectrum. And there are crazy positions on both ends. Open borders is just as untenable as violating due process to deport people.
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Oh and non-citizens can't vote. Errors do happen but they are exceedingly rare. One study found just 30 cases of non-citizen voting out of 23.5 million votes in the 2016 election. .0001%
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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If the Democrats plan was to import Latinos to win elections, they're certainly doing a shit job of it because their policies and messaging have been consistently losing support among that demographic.
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As for importing voters, in 2024, Hispanic majority counties shifted 13.2 points towards Trump. In PA, NV and MI, Latinos swung right by 20 points. 48% of Latino men under 40 voted for Trump. These trends have been increasing since 2016 or before.
www.brookings.edu/articles/a-d...
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Biden expelled a higher percentage of migrants attempting to cross than Trump. During Trump, "47.4% of those immigrants were expelled or repatriated, while 52.2% were released...Under Biden...50.9% of the immigrants were expelled or repatriated, while 48.6% we're released."
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The actual number of encounters with migrants who crossed our border during Biden's term was 7.2 million, according Customs and Border Patrol. That was about 5 million higher than during Trump's first term. But that only speaks to the actions of migrants, not the US Government.
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Or JD Vance claiming "Joe Biden allowed approximately 20 million illegal aliens into our country." Both of these claims are just outright false.
www.snopes.com/fact-check/m...
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"The Biden administration was pushing to get in as many illegals as possible...The whole thing was a giant voter importation scam."
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And while this kind of response isn't coming directly out of the mouths of people like Elon Musk, it's enabled and fueled by the misinformation he spreads. Like:
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Sorry!
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He arrived illegally would be more accurate, yes.
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This isn't a partisan issue. It's about whether the courts have legitimacy and whether the executive branch can ignore them with impunity. I know where I stand. Do you?
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Not just for this administration, but for the next. If you're a Trump supporter or Republican, do you really want the next Democratic administration to defy court orders whenever they feel like it?
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"...The Government has not challenged the validity of that order."
That's all that matters. Either court orders like this have force or they don't. This administration is arguing that they can defy such orders whenever they feel like it. That sets a dangerous precedent.