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.

  • @Hexbatch
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    822 days ago

    Third parties who are not a pity vote, in the USA , can only arise from the school boards and city halls.

    It cannot not be some national or state org who runs candidates for top offices only, asking for funds, and get a few votes

    I think that local process to build options is broke right now, because grassroots are stalled at the neighborhoods, except for a few places in big cities.

    It’s broke but it’s not dead

    If you want third party, then run or support school board candidates, dog catchers, sheriffs; and then look to the next county for like minded folks. Someday it could be a coalition to change state politics

    • bluGill
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      022 days ago

      Successful third parties run national candidates because it gets attention for their local candidates who do win elections.

      • @Hexbatch
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        122 days ago

        Which 3rd parties run for county offices? I’m out of the loop

        • bluGill
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          122 days ago

          None get all counties but the libertarians have a good number