cannot get enough nurses, because we are halted on immigration. basil? listen, i think this is what we were talking about earlier, in the 80s, my parents, jamaican immigrants, i remember a lot of the conversation in the community was about amnesty. the reagan administration. there was amnesty at that time. that s the word you used. that s the word he used. you had christian evangelicals actually embracing immigrants, in part, because for whatever religious the new testament and old testament commandments? there s that. yeah. and then there s bringing them into the party. this country has a history of doing that. tammy hall with west indians coming in the early 1900s saying we need more democrats, and recruiting west indians to do that. there s a history of parties doing this with immigrant communities. why not now? well, now, the problem is, or if you can call it that, is that they need immigrants to be the villains. they are very good at painting immigrants as villains.
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) blocked the confirmation of two Senate nominees on Wednesday, protesting a “lack of responsiveness” from the Biden administration amid talks with Republicans over Ukraine aid and border security funding, according to Politico. Menendez blocked Basil Gooden’s nomination for the Department of Agriculture’s under-secretary of rural development and the renomination of Summer…
Hispanic leaders are warning President Biden and Democratic leaders to step away from border policy talks with Republicans, or risk losing political support ahead of a crucial election year. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) and Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) on Wednesday came out in a show of force, amid reports that the White House has…
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez on Tuesday accused the Biden administration of ignoring immigrant communities and selling out to Republicans on border negotiations. Menendez, who in September was indicted on bribery charges, has stepped away to an extent from the leadership role he played on immigration for decades. But many in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus…