General Discussion

I don't think there are ANY elected officials who wouldn't agree that we need to control the borders. The lie the Republicans have used for multiple election cycles is that Democrats support open borders.

The problem that although Jefferies appears to say at the end, there are problems with Trump's immigration policies, the Republicans will chop that off


The change he and Bernie, whose full statement I didn't see need to make is how to avoid giving Trump a sound bite that on its face, out of context, says Trump is correct on the border. I also worry that it could be heard as Trump fixed something that was a problem under Biden.

Maybe a statement that doesn't mention Trump, but says something along the lines of "The US like any country must control who is allowed in and that has been the policy of all US Presidents. More complicated than border policy is an immigration policy that deals are with the complicated reality that there are many good hard working immigrants who have been here for decades without legal status. Congressional legislation is the only way to deal with this. The Republicans killed bipartisan efforts in both the Obama and Biden years.

Now, I realize that the whole last part might be chopped, but the first sentence doesn't give them a sound bite.