Oh hey, the media has finally discovered that the right is obsessed with immigrants
by digby
I’m so loving the mainstream media’s newfound awareness that the Republican Party is obsessed with immigration. Sheesh.
They really need to listen to talk radio once in awhile. This is a conversation between Laura Ingraham and David Brat, the man they all insisted won because Eric Cantor failed to fix the potholes in his district, not because this guy hammered him on immigration:
Laura Ingraham: Are you a man who would separate a child from her mother or father and isn’t that a hard-hearted approach and a way that you’ll never grow the Republican Party or the conservative base. I mean it’s so mean.
Brat: You hit it on the head, that is the crux of the issue and Eric Cantor is acting exactly like Obama and the Democrats basing public policy on emotion rather than reason. Just for starters, “making life work?” I mean the day you think the federal government and Caesar should make your life work, you’ve got a fundamental problem on your hands and you need to go re-read history books. Whenever you trust the federal government, federal governments do not love, they are incapable of love, so this emotional pitch that Caesar is going to take care of children is just completely irrational. Our founders knew much better. They wanted a contest of 50 states. And on the point you make about the passage of this great founding principle that children should not be punished, does that apply to all children across the globe that they somehow receive a right to be US citizens? And if that were true, that would mean all future DREAMers have a right to amnesty as every immigration law is bypassed and permanently void if you follow Eric’s logic.
I think you referred to it in the news, I know Mark Levin did last night, the Washington Times reported 60,000 kids are expected to cross the border at 225.00 a day per child., and big business gets the cheap labor that’s what they want, Eric Cantor’s their guy, but who has to pay the 225.00 a day per kids who are coming over the border in what some are calling a humanitarian crisis because Eric Cantor is sending all the wrong signals? … He wanted to put illegal immigrants into our military, which makes no sense. You’ll have non-citizens in one of the most key positions in our society, serving in the most honored spot.
This is how they talk all the time. In public. It’s no secret. And yet until Donald Trump decided to reinstate “Operation Wetback” they pretended it wasn’t happening.
People talk about the right wing bubble and the left wing bubble. I think the real problem is the Village bubble.
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