“President Biden is making the same mistake President Obama made in his first term: catering to xenophobes while performing compassion toward immigrants.
“The strategy lays out the red carpet for Trumpism 2.0,” writes @jeanguerre for @latimesopinion. latimes.com/opinion/story/…
“The strategy lays out the red carpet for Trumpism 2.0,” writes @jeanguerre for @latimesopinion. latimes.com/opinion/story/…
“Either Democrats dramatically reinvent the immigration debate in defense of multiracial democracy, or they reinforce white paranoia and accelerate our descent into white nationalism. They can’t have it both ways.”
“No matter what Biden does, Republicans will attack his policies as ‘open borders.’ No matter how few people make it to the U.S., Fox News will send cameras to conjure a border apocalypse.”
“Neither Biden nor the Democrats can control that. What they can control is whether they take the bait by playing into and promoting anti-immigrant panic.”
“Cowardice and a lack of imagination are to blame for Democrats’ failure to come up with a cohesive counter-narrative to Republicans’ fearmongering. But many in the national media are also at fault.”
“Rather than pressing Biden about his promise to protect millions of undocumented essential workers and community members, many reporters are following the Fox News formula of fixating on the numbers at the border.”
“Top-tier news outlets also keep giving prominence to organizations that peddle anti-immigrant views, including those classified as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center…”
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