“Mass Deportation Now!” declared the signs at the Republican National Convention, giving a full embrace to Donald Trump’s pledge to expel millions of migrants in the largest deportation program in American history.

Some Republicans aren’t quite ready for that.

Lauren B. Peña, a Republican activist from Texas, said that hearing Trump’s calls for mass deportations, as well as terms like “illegals” and “invasion” thrown around at the convention, made her feel uncomfortable. Like some Republicans in Congress who have advanced balanced approaches to immigration, she hopes Trump is just blustering.

“He’s not meaning to go and deport every family that crosses the border, he means deport the criminals and the sex offenders,” Peña said.

    • The Quuuuuill
      link
      fedilink
      English
      344 months ago

      They been slowly ramping up to it for a while while saying “never again” and acting like their massive caches of guns were for standing up to a potential fascist. Turns out. They’re big fans of fascism and when they said “never again” the full sentence was “never again will anyone stop us”

    • dactylotheca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      33 months ago

      There are no moderate conservatives. Every single one of them either wants genocide and other atrocities, or maybe doesn’t actively wish for genocide but as long as it doesn’t affect them they’re going to keep voting for the people pushing for genocide anyhow

      • Lexi Sneptaur
        link
        fedilink
        English
        33 months ago

        It’s amazing how much these people think their political views are normal.

        • dactylotheca
          link
          fedilink
          English
          23 months ago

          The scary part is that they are normal for something like 30% of the population of not more