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| ‘Isn’t That Effectively Open Borders?’: Stephanopoulos Challenges Julian Castro Over Immigration Proposals |
| 2019-07-01 |
| [DAILYCALLER] "When you add up all the proposals you’re calling for right now, decriminalization of crossing the border, no deportation absent other crimes, the offer of health benefits, also a possible path to citizenship. I know you reject the rhetoric about open borders, but isn’t that effectively open borders, not limiting how ‐ immigration in any real way?" Castro pushed back, saying that "there’s no way that we can call that open borders because we have 654 miles of fencing, we have thousands of personnel at the border. We have planes, helicopters, boats, security cameras, guns. That’s by no stretch of the imagination open borders." "Open borders is just a right-wing talking point. It always has been," he said. Castro did not say, and was not asked, whether he would cut back on the resources and manpower currently at the border. Like most Democrats, he has opposed calls to build a wall on the border. Castro told a news hound Feb. 21 in Iowa he would support the removal of parts of the border wall that have been erected under Trump. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 ""there’s no way that we can call that open borders because..." because that would be political suicide. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2019-07-01 23:33 |
| #3 It is all one big Uni-Party now. Sure, on the surface it looks like two opposites sides, Democrats and Republicans. But just like Big Time Wrestling where you have the faces and the heels as opposing forces, the good guys and the bad guys, striving mightily against each other in a cosmic conflict, everyone is just part of the show. All within the Uni-Party, nothing outside the Uni-Party, nothing against the Uni-Party. Trump is an outsider. This is why he horrifies both the Dems (naturally!) *and* the Republicans. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2019-07-01 17:30 |
| #2 We have long since become accustomed to this kind of nonsense from FIFY. The 'Democratic Party' in myth and legend died a generation or more ago. The GOP died shortly after Reagan left office. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-07-01 16:47 |
| #1 We have long since become accustomed to this kind of nonsense from Democrats. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-07-01 12:31 |