Undocumented immigrants aren’t actually a problem, but the Republican Party has framed them “as criminals and lawbreakers and a grave threat to the nation in order to motivate and mobilize the Republican base, to great effect,” Massey told Truthout. Up until now, the Democrats have failed to push back, he added.
By David L. Wilson, Truthout
July 20, 2021
Republican politicians and
commentators spent the last week of June promoting their claim that this year’s
increase in apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico border constitutes — in the words
of Fox News host Sean Hannity — “a crisis of a monumental scale.”
The campaign’s high point
came on June 30 when former president Donald Trump visited a stretch of the
border wall near Pharr, Texas, and delivered a number of “questionable statements” about his administration’s supposed enforcement
successes.[…]
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https://truthout.org/articles/lets-call-the-border-crisis-what-it-is-another-big-lie-from-the-right/
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| GOP pols tour the border in March. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images |
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