MSNBC host Al Sharpton used the term “invasion” to describe the border crisis, sparking controversy.
The Senate immigration bill has been hailed as a bipartisan effort, but some Republicans argue it’s insufficient, while Democratic Senator Alex Padilla criticized it as a “new version of a failed Trump-era immigration policy.”
Sharpton urged for public pressure on senators to support the bill, emphasizing the urgency of the migrant influx.
“What is being done to get the public to really rise up in various states to say to their senators that they want to see the border issue resolved?” Sharpton asked.
“I mean, you’re getting migrants beating up policemen in the streets of New York. You’re seeing an influx of migrants all over the country that, frankly, have people outraged. Couldn’t there be some kind of public pressure put in the next couple of days in some of these senators’ states saying, ‘Why are you allowing this to continue?’ Because at the end of the day, senators have to deal with their voters.”
“But the border, I mean, we’re looking every day at the invasion of migrants, and they’re playing a time game with politics on this?” Sharpton asked. “Couldn’t the pressure be put to bear in their home states?”
The use of “invasion” drew objections, with critics linking it to historical anti-immigration rhetoric.
“Once confined to the nativist far-right, this rhetoric of immigrant invasion has surged into the Republican Party mainstream since former President Donald Trump’s rise in 2016,” reporter Paul Blumenthal wrote.
“This rhetoric has been deployed throughout American history to fuel support for anti-immigration measures and most notably in the Supreme Court’s opinion upholding the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.”
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