Awful: Trump just revealed that he will attack Biden over "migrant killings" at the debate later this month. It really is time to treat the Trump-MAGA use of these horrific murders to smear millions of undocumented immigrants as a big story. 1/
New piece from me:
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It's hard to overstate how ubiquitous the highlighting of "migrant crime" has become in right wing info spaces. Trump brings it up at rallies. MAGA lawmakers put it on T-shirts. Fox News puts mug shots on screens and highlights crimes in chyrons. 2/
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Right now Trump/MAGA personalities are all hyping the horrific killing of a young Maryland mom. Fox reported that the alleged killer is a "gotaway," which is supposed to indict Biden. But this actually undermines their case, as I try to explain here. 3/
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This alleged killer got in after repeat crossings under Title 42. But that undermines MAGA's case! It shows he got in when maximum asylum restrictions first implemented by Trump were in effect! And Trump released hundreds of thousands, too. More below. 4/
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James Carville says Biden should respond by directly telling Trump this:
“When I took over from you, crime in the United States was rising. We are now in one of the greatest declines in crime we’ve had in modern American history.” 5/
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Biden's protections for undocumented spouses of US citizens provides an opening for a contrast with Trump, who would deport all those people and all other undocumented immigrants.
Biden can say he will keep American families together, Trump would rip them apart. 6/
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Time for more coverage of this. What about stand-alone NYT news analyses highlighting Trump-MAGA pattern of cherry-picking "migrant crimes," showing how absurdly it's being used, and quoting experts warning of the historical dangers of this trope? 7/
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First, how are people imagining that trumps jello brain is going to stitch together anything resembling argument?
He can’t even remember names or events. Not that we expect much coherence to his utterances but sure seems like news media over-amps his cognitive ability
"Arguing" against someone's perception of reality rarely works.
A better response might be what others here have suggested, that we should deport people with more than 30 felony convictions.
If Biden doesn't pose a dire menace to this country, then how can you possibly explain this urgent email the Trump campaign just sent to millions of supporters (plus me, lol)? Subject line: "They'll wheel granny off a cliff!"
"Biden's protections for undocumented spouses of US citizens provides an opening for a contrast with Trump, who would deport all those people and all other undocumented immigrants."
Two words: Melania Trump.
This isn't an opening for the Donald.
sure but Biden should also assume that Trump will respond in standard Republican fashion, as has been done on the economy and inflation, by suggesting that any citing of stats in this way is callous to the lived experience of people who are in their rhetoric currently suffering the worst of whatever
There was a deal in the Senate that would have provided funding for more immigration judges to expedite the asylum process, thus hastening the deportation of those who did not qualify. Guess who scuttled that deal?
What drives me bananas about this argument is, *he was caught 3 times and sent back*. If the system didn't work, he would have gotten in the first time, not 4 tries later. And few people are going to keep trying after 1-2 tries.
Debunking their claims is good work.
The only problem is that "illegal [sic] kills woman while Biden is president" just works for large swaths of illiterates.
