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I believe we can have a secure border and a clear pathway to citizenship and we can do it without a rogue, illegal agency like ICE.

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this beyond anything else you have done with your campaign, is what will lose you your position. I get its a hard, hard position you are in, needing to always seem not too soft on whatever problem the zeitgeist has decided is important, but this position will cost you directly

i still hope you win but this is the latest in several bad signs here, in some ways better than Zohran, and in some ways worse. Often the defense a lot of people offer for candidates like this boils down to "well this is the best we can do" which like ... is it??

im hardly optimistic about electoral politics, to be sure, but if you seriously believe that *this* is the best we can do, that it cant ever be better than this, than you are far more pessimistic than I. You just dont realize it yet.

The ultimate tech challenge: upgrading the OS of a federal agency without crashing the entire system. Turns out "legacy code" is a great metaphor for 20th-century bureaucracy.

Every day capitalists prove they ain’t shit, no matter how progressive they try to be. I’ll never fully trust him until he changes on that, which sucks bcuz he is great is some ways.

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Violent ICE raids in California “...the violent manner of two ICE arrests this past weekend of Alameda County residents. In both cases, federal agents appear to have used excessive force against the people they detained, leaving them injured and in need of hospital care.”

We certainly did OK before Homeland Security came into existence! Homeland has wasted an incredible amount of funding and don't forget to talk to Stephen Miller about that few billions from Homeland's coffers that mysteriously got sent to offshore accounts...

Gutting courts, judges, immigration attorneys, spokespeople for immigrants, for toddlers left to fend for themselves was DELIBERATE. “The cruelty is the point.” #MillersPlan We are ALL at greater risk from Republicans than ppl who commit a civil offense of crossing our border. #Block🧊 Abolish DHS

If you support authoritarian reifications like borders and using any sort of centralized state violence to enforce such anti-freedom of movement nonsense, you're being just as much of a garbage reactionary as your opponent Rogers is. Driving away leftist votes like that is why your bud Harris lost!

A few months ago, there was a joint operation in southern California. FBI Marshalls sheriff dept, etc. Early morning raid to capture some accused of gang, murder, drugs, etc. They got 25 of the 40. This is what should happen. Specific targets. (And trials.)

The modern "illegal immigration crisis" was CREATED by trying to close the borders against migrant workers, forcing them to stay year round to keep their income.

please stop doing the thing where a promising Dem candidate starts expressing right-wing opinions in a failed attempt at attracting right-wing voters and a successful attempt to repel left-wing voters

bitch "border security" is right-wing bullshit, it still implies the kind of violence that ICE does and the kind that we still did before ICE existed if you "get rid" of ICE but still have people doing their work, just wearing a different uniform, no you didn't

One of my teachers saw an immigration judges deport someone for arriving naked he had been at ICE camp and that’s how they brought him for laughs no immigration judges are evil as shit

Abolish ICE as a political demand has been co-opted by the establishment so they can pretend the "border agents systematically violating everyone's rights." started with ICE in 2003 and wasn't a problem going back a fucking century. theintercept.com/2019/01/12/b...

theintercept.comThe Border Patrol Has Been a Cult of Brutality Since 1924Since its founding, the U.S. Border Patrol has arguably been the most politicized and abusive branch of federal law enforcement.

Even when the end-game of americanism becomes increasingly clear, democratic politician still feel the urge to fuck the boarder, fellate the cops, and ass-tongue the troops. It is an infantile disease that runs the entire political spectrum.

DHS needs to be completely dismantled, the pre-9/11 elements put back where they used to be and the rest thrown out. We need trained social workers and lawyers/judges specializing in immigration at the border, NOT law enforcement. Being undocumented is a CIVIL offense, NOT a CRIME.

Sorry my dude, but giving into right wing framing of "secure borders" is silly. If anything, we should strive towards a world where we can have freedom of movement across borders.

Respectfully, "secure borders" are a shitty idea proposed by shitty people working in bad faith, and you don't need to enable them

Validating this kind of loon stuff will just advance the goals of a second Trump in the future

Coward. Despicable. Will winning have been worth it? Will YOUR campaign, YOUR senate career be valuable enough, powerful enough, to make this betrayal worthwhile? The arrogance is astounding to think your senate career is important enough that this evil statement is for the greater good. Shame.

Thank you. The 4th amendment is not optional and this Trump regime, with support from the #UnSupremeCourt (eg. Racial profiling via #KavanaughStops) is trampling on our Constitution. There IS a better way and your answer nailed it.

That's okay, you can call ICE what they really are. A Nazi Gestapo who throw people that they hate into inhumane concentration camps. Remember, Hitler started concentration camps in 1933, but didn't start his "final solution" exterminations until 1941

Bullshit and we have seen it. He want to turn the US into the failing Europe. I say no, but you decide how much you hate our kids.

Remember the Lankford/Sinema 2024 Emergency National Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, a $118 billion legislative package aimed to enact sweeping changes to U.S. border and asylum laws in roughly 30 to 40 years? Yeah, tRUMP told them to 86 it so he had something to run on & to blame Biden.

please, Senator, call them by "ICEStapo." their Preferred monikker: it Really puffs out their Chests & makes 'em Wanna 'grab their Weaponry.' (and cadet Bonespurtz LOVES It TOO!)

Republicans killed a border bill they helped to create, which had the backing of the Border Patrol, in order to help get Trump re-elected. They're not interested in securing the border. They're interested in something they can use to create fear and hold on to power.

i feel like people are missing that he is trying to reclaim the concept of secure borders from xenophobic fascist lunatics what I think he could do better is note that the migrant influx pre-Trump 2 was not a problem for public safety; the issue is lack of pathways to legal status for migrants

You cannot "reclaim" a fascist position without condoning fascist ideology. The "secure borders" rhetoric creates a problem that doesn't exist. Borders aren't real. The uncountable murders committed to protect that fantasy are. Taking over the fascist playbook always strengthens the fascists.

Stop framing immigration as a problem, it is not. It even isn't for the fascists as long as the immigrants are white and seemingly christian. Which should make it clear what this "protect that imaginary line on the map that I drew" is based on: racism. Don't feed this anti-human rhetoric.