Immigration has become one of the central issues of the 2024 race, with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump vowing to expand the draconian policies of his first term and deport 10 million immigrants from the country amid what he calls an “invasion.”
Democrats, meanwhile, are touting their own border crackdown at the Democratic National Convention this week in Chicago. President Joe Biden celebrated his executive action to block many asylum seekers at the southern U.S. border, and Vice President Kamala Harris promises to hire thousands more border agents if she is elected.
We host a roundtable discussion in Chicago with Oscar Chacón, executive director of Alianza Americas, an immigrant rights group; Maria Hinojosa, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, founder of Futuro Media and host of the Latino USA podcast; and Marisa Franco, director and co-founder of Mijente, a national digital organizing hub for Latinx and Chicanx communities.
Better idea: fix the fucking immigration process. You would be surprised how many “closed border” Republicans, when pressed, will ask for a system that is more progressive than our current one. You would be surprised how closely those votes align with “open border” Democrats. Politicians have made a wedge issue out of something that has no wedge in the public.
So, you’re demanding a positive change instead of the border crackdowns that Harris and Trump have vowed to carry out?
First past the post sure is fun.
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