GOP fears midterms backlash from breaking up families at the border

[babylonsister]

Gee, ya think?

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gop-fears-midterms-backlash-breaking-families-border-n883706

GOP fears midterms backlash from breaking up families at the border

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's policy of taking immigrant children from their parents at the southern border may have been designed to push Democrats to the negotiating table in Congress — but it could end up costing Republican lawmakers.

"Democrats can fix their forced family breakup at the Border by working with Republicans on new legislation, for a change!" Trump wrote on Twitter Saturday. "This is why we need more Republicans elected in November."

But the policy, which has separated some 2,000 children from their parents in just six weeks, could have the opposite effect as anxious Republican lawmakers fear voters may see their party as heartless on immigration and punish them for it in November. And Democrats are driving home that message in emails to supporters and by organizing trips to detention centers.

The issue will "absolutely" be a factor in the midterm elections this fall, said a GOP operative working to elect Republicans to Congress, adding that "the images are devastating" for the GOP.

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A second Republican strategist said, "The media will broadcast these images of brutality and chaos and the public will associate them with the Republicans that run the House and the Senate — but most of all with President Trump."

But fearful of challenging the president, Republicans are offering a fix that also gives Trump what he wants: major reductions to legal immigration and billions of dollars for a border wall. And the measure makes it extremely difficult to obtain asylum, which is what most families crossing the border are seeking. Furthermore, some experts say that the measure does little to ensure that children will be kept with their parents.

And in the Senate, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Tex., plans to reintroduce legislation that would keep border-crossing families together "while they await court proceedings," according to an aide. It would be a new version of his 2014 Humane Act, which also expedites court proceedings for unaccompanied minor children. The legislation, critics say, would actually lead to more deportations of children and families.

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1. Cornyn's legislation proposal just goes to prove that republicans don't know how to be humane.

They miss the mark by a nautical mile.

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2. There should be a backlash to end all backlashes

[GaYellowDawg]

3. I just don't know.

I'm afraid that some Trump voters will buy into Trump's lie that it's a Democratic law so that they can stay in denial about the monster they voted for. I'm also afraid that the rest of them will say, "Hayull yeah! Lock them dayum Mexican kids up and then dee-port 'em! And put Hillary in there with 'em too! Haw haw haw!"

I just have a hard time with the idea that Trump voters will let go of their infatuation with him.

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5. That's why turnout is so important

The GOP only wins by cheating. They have suppressed voter turnout for decades.

So that means that there are a LOT of democrats who don’t vote. If we get them out to vote, we win. It doesn’t matter what the MAGAts do.

Turnout. It’s the only thing that matters. Get your friends out to vote. Especially people between 18-30.

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4. Stupid headline, NBC

“GOP fears midterm punishment as the public learns about their anti-American attacks on children”


Is more accurate