Thread by @AmericasVoice

House Minority Leader @GOPLeader's border trip agenda:
✅ distract from COVID package
✅ demonize vulnerable kids
✅ undermine support for popular immigration measures to be voted on Thursday
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"@GOPLeader and the Republican Party are playing politics rather than proposing solutions. They don’t want better policies, they want more power." - @FrankSharry

"They hope that demonizing a bunch of vulnerable kids with dark skin seeking refuge in America will excite the GOP’s white grievance base and peel off some swing voters they lost to the Democrats." - @FrankSharry

"It won’t work. Trumpism’s original sin was immigrant bashing, and in the end it turned off more voters than it turned on. Americans want action that legalizes millions of long-settled undocumented immigrants." - @FrankSharry

"They want an asylum and refugee process that is fair, functional and leads to freedom for those deemed eligible. And most of all, they want their elected leaders to be serious about doing big things that change people’s lives." - @FrankSharry

"So, go ahead, @GOPLeader. Go stir the racism straw and dehumanize kids fleeing for their lives. If white power is the hill you and your colleagues choose to die on, be our guest." - @FrankSharry

"But don’t be surprised that the rest of us will be focused on building back better so that America works for all of us." - @FrankSharry