A new @CNN op-ed, former HUD Secretary and San Antonio Mayor @JulianCastro blasts the GOP for their fear mongering, falsehoods, and politicization of the lives of children from Central America who are seeking asylum. bit.ly/3e0e2h9
"We need to build a forward-looking, modern immigration system rather than revert to the depravity and failure of the Trump years." - @douglasrivlin
"We can’t take seriously Republicans who want only to play politics, demonize immigrants and put vulnerable kids back into the dangerous situations they fled." - @douglasrivlin
"If we’re interested in solutions at our border, we have to look beyond the border to the source of the crisis in Central America while finally delivering on citizenship for long-settled immigrants & new legal pathways to make migration patterns safe & orderly." - @douglasrivlin
"Of course, Republicans aren’t interested in real solutions, just short-term politics, looking tough for the cameras and whitewashing Trump’s disastrous record of family separation, failure and cruelty." - @douglasrivlin
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"When Carlson worries about immigrants from the third world, he is talking about Hispanic, Asian and Black people who he worries will outnumber 'current' voters. Current voters, in this formulation, are the white people who make up the majority of the American electorate."
"And tremendous energy is being exerted not only by white supremacists in the general population, but also Republican office holders, to attack immigrants, curtail immigration, disenfranchise Black and brown voters and assail abortion rights."
Bipartisan support for Haiti TPS redesignation grows amid the Biden Administration’s deafening silence bit.ly/3wI1BPB
"There is now bipartisan support in the House & Senate, not to mention the growing voices on the ground calling, no, screaming, for the Biden Administration to redesignate Haiti for TPS. The growing support should be a wakeup call for the President and his team." - @douglasrivlin
"Almost daily, deportation flights are leaving the U.S. bound for Haiti and it is well past time for this Administration to deliver on its promise to the Haitian community already here living in the U.S.." - @douglasrivlin
Family separation was cruel and didn’t work: why Republican whitewashing of Trump’s real border record cannot go unchallenged bit.ly/3t0xPDm#FamiliesBelongTogether
"Family separation is one of the darkest chapters of any modern American presidency. They ripped kids from the arms of their parents, knowing full well that no tracking system was in place, and knowing full well that incalculable trauma would result." - @FrankSharry
"Hundreds of kids remain separated from their families. And now Republicans want us to believe that’s the right policy solution to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Central America. America is better than revisiting the moral stain of family separation." - @FrankSharry
If Republicans wanted to fix our broken immigration system, they would head to Central America bit.ly/39OPJRY
"The crisis is in Central America. If Republicans really wanted solutions, they would address the source of the crisis. Of course, they have no such interest." - @FrankSharry
"The GOP is a post-policy party, entirely focused on white identity, grievance politics and short-term tactics. Their only half-nods toward policy involve re-upping the failed deterrence-only policies and cruelties of Trump and Stephen Miller." - @FrankSharry
From showboating to gun-boating: GOP senators’ dehumanizing of vulnerable kids takes dangerous new direction bit.ly/3lQH86c
"From showboating to gun-boating, this is disgusting play-acting and a dangerous development from Republican Senators." - @FrankSharry
"Make no mistake, this signals to their diehard base that vulnerable kids seeking protection and other migrants and refugees are threats that should be met with guns." - @FrankSharry