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So, today Kamala Harris is in Douglas, Arizona campaigning on how she'll put her attorney general know-how to the people of America to prove she's ready to tackle the border crisis. Key word from her speech? That she's interested in running on a solution to the crisis, not running on the crisis itself.
It's a statement that's derived from the adage, "Be a part of the solution, not a part of the problem." I won't go into a spiel about all the high points of her awesome speech, but I will explain why Harris is the better choice on immigration.
See, she wants to FIX issues about the border that Trump and the MAGA base chose to only exacerbate. Fact: Trump is the only president in America's history to cut funding for fighting fentanyl trafficking and instead ripped kids and babies from parents and lock them up in cages like zoo animals... and then lie on national television about how "fabulous" they were doing during a debate with his 2020 opponent Joe Biden. Trump also chose to singlehandedly force the Republicans into striking down a bipartisan border deal that they, Democrats, and the entire Border Patrol wanted greenlighted and signed.
Why? So that he could later weaponize the border crisis to stoke racism, hatred, and violence against ALL immigrants -- without care of whether they are legal or not -- starting with the Haitian immigrant community in Springfield, Ohio. As always, Trump relies on grisly violence as his trusted method of a solution.
Listen up, America. I don't care what Trump OR his supporters think: fear, hatred, racism, and violence are NOT campaigning. The word "campaign" does NOT include bloodshed. It does NOT include labeling someone or a group of people as a bogeyman and continuously saying that America only prospers when they are obliterated. It does NOT include turning people against each other and watching the show with soda and popcorn.
"I'm running on a solution to our problems at the border" IS a campaign slogan.
"Send them back" is a statement of dehumanization and hatred, and advocates a culture of isolationism. And history has taught us countless times that isolationism is the perfect recipe for a nation that languishes in a meaningless existence.
It's a statement that's derived from the adage, "Be a part of the solution, not a part of the problem." I won't go into a spiel about all the high points of her awesome speech, but I will explain why Harris is the better choice on immigration.
See, she wants to FIX issues about the border that Trump and the MAGA base chose to only exacerbate. Fact: Trump is the only president in America's history to cut funding for fighting fentanyl trafficking and instead ripped kids and babies from parents and lock them up in cages like zoo animals... and then lie on national television about how "fabulous" they were doing during a debate with his 2020 opponent Joe Biden. Trump also chose to singlehandedly force the Republicans into striking down a bipartisan border deal that they, Democrats, and the entire Border Patrol wanted greenlighted and signed.
Why? So that he could later weaponize the border crisis to stoke racism, hatred, and violence against ALL immigrants -- without care of whether they are legal or not -- starting with the Haitian immigrant community in Springfield, Ohio. As always, Trump relies on grisly violence as his trusted method of a solution.
Listen up, America. I don't care what Trump OR his supporters think: fear, hatred, racism, and violence are NOT campaigning. The word "campaign" does NOT include bloodshed. It does NOT include labeling someone or a group of people as a bogeyman and continuously saying that America only prospers when they are obliterated. It does NOT include turning people against each other and watching the show with soda and popcorn.
"I'm running on a solution to our problems at the border" IS a campaign slogan.
"Send them back" is a statement of dehumanization and hatred, and advocates a culture of isolationism. And history has taught us countless times that isolationism is the perfect recipe for a nation that languishes in a meaningless existence.
