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So, this:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans have grown markedly more positive toward immigration over the past year, with the share wanting immigration reduced dropping from 55% in 2024 to 30% today. At the same time, a record-high 79% of U.S. adults say immigration is a good thing for the country.
These shifts reverse a four-year trend of rising concern about immigration that began in 2021 and reflect changes among all major party groups.
With illegal border crossings down sharply this year, fewer Americans than in June 2024 back hard-line border enforcement measures, while more favor offering pathways to citizenship for undocumented immigrants already in the U.S.
Note the “With illegal border crossings down sharply” framing from Gallup. Perhaps it’s the masked secret police wilding through towns in the US. I prefer that frame, but who knows.
I saw this the other day and just shook my head, not wanting to write about it, but I guess I need to:
Former US Secretary of State John Kerry has told the BBC his fellow Democrats allowed the US-Mexico border to be "under siege" during Joe Biden's presidency.
In sometimes sharp words, Kerry - who was the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004 and a US senator from Massachusetts - said he told Biden the party had "missed" on the issue of immigration for years.
He said this had allowed Republicans like Donald Trump to gain political advantage.
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"The first thing any president should say - or anybody in public life - is without a border protected, you don't have a nation," Kerry said. "I wish President Biden had been heard more often saying, I'm going to enforce the law."
Do not. accept. your opponent’s frame. Rule one of politics.
I was talking to my nephew the other day — he’s a hard-core Republican. He runs cattle and has some other farming-related businesses. He likes JD Vance. (He’s not an incel — has a couple of kids and is a good dad.) But, he had no concern about open borders, and he agreed that if Trump really came after Mexican farm workers around here, there would be a big problem.
Of course, Trump and his buddies aren’t doing that. The latest ICE raids were on cannabis farms in California. I think they’ve miscalculated on immigration. A theoretical political party that wasn’t afraid of its own shadow, and didn’t have 81-year-old failed Presidential candidates running around amplifying the opposition’s talking points, might want to make the point that our economy relies on farm labor from immigrants. So perhaps we should reform our immigration policy rather than deporting every undocumented immigrant. It might be a popular position to run on, who knows?
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