MSNBC host Al Sharpton used the word “invasion” to describe the border crisis Monday while bashing some Republicans for not agreeing with the Senate immigration bill released over the weekend. However, some liberals found this highly controversial.
President Biden and Democratic and Republican politicians have touted the deal as a bipartisan compromise to secure the border. But many Republicans argue that not only is the deal insufficient, but that Biden already has the ability to take the necessary actions to secure the border. One of their main criticisms is that it includes powers such as Chapter 42, which would only become mandatory if the number of migrant encounters at the southern border exceeds 5,000 per day. Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla is so far the only Democratic senator to publicly criticize the bill. He called the deal “a new version of failed Trump-era immigration policy that will cause more chaos at the border, not less.”
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) appeared on “Morning Joe” to promote the bill he helped negotiate, but Sharpton urged voters to pressure the senator to support the bill. I asked what I should do.
Sharpton expressed urgency, calling on people across the country who are “outraged” by the “influx of immigrants” and accusing dissenting senators of “allowing this situation to continue.”
MSNBC host called the migrant crisis at America’s southern border an invasion. (MSNBC)
The border deal could cost more than $14 billion, but Republican lawmakers are uneasy about the bill’s text.
“What is being done to get people in different states to actually stand up and say to their senators that they want to resolve the border issue?” he asked. “I mean, immigrants are beating police officers on the streets of New York. We’re seeing an influx of immigrants across the country that, frankly, is infuriating people. There was no public pressure of any kind. In the coming days, these senators in some of their states will say, “Why are we leaving this alone?” After all, senators must respond to their constituents. ”
After mentioning funding for Israel and Gaza, Sharpton returned to the border and called the migrant crisis an “invasion,” a term that has sparked outrage among immigration advocates and the left.
“But the border, we monitor migrant incursions every day, and they’re playing politics and time games on this?” Sharpton asked. “Couldn’t you withstand the pressure in their home base?”
December 18, 2023: Immigrants flood Eagle Pass, Texas, waiting to be processed. (Fox News)
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HuffPost senior reporter Paul Blumenthal describes the massive influx of people coming across the U.S. southern border in Monday’s article, “Texas makes a ridiculous argument that immigration is an ‘invasion’.” He objected to the use of the word “invasion” to describe the
“Once confined to the xenophobic far right, this immigrant invasion rhetoric has swept into the mainstream Republican Party since the rise of former President Donald Trump in 2016,” Blumenthal wrote. He continued, “This rhetoric has been deployed throughout American history to drum up support for anti-immigrant policies, most notably in the Supreme Court’s opinion upholding the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. ” he said.
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He went on to quote Matthew Lindsay, a law professor at the University of Baltimore, who said that such rhetoric “paints immigrants as a faceless mass who are racially incapable of assimilating into American notions of freedom.” “It would undermine the free institutions of this country.” They work by taking on jobs at exploitative wages. ”
FOX News’ Adam Shaw contributed to this report.
