Harassing Good Samaritans Is On Brand for GOP
Republican members of Congress are expanding their war on migrants to the groups that receive federal money to help provide them with food and shelter.
Migrants wait in line for donations outside of Sacred Heart Church in El Paso, Texas, US, May 3, 2023.
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The Republican war on migrants and asylum seekers has been one of the more successful GOP campaigns of recent years if you measure success by volume of vitriol.
GOP politicians travel repeatedly to the border to provide fresh content for Fox News and to reinforce the “invasion” message whenever hysteria wanes. It seems to work well. In an NPR/Ipsos poll last summer, a slight majority of Americans agreed that it’s either “completely” or “somewhat” true that an “invasion” is under way at the US-Mexico border. And, of course, Republicans speak so frequently of an “open border” that millions of Americans believe such a thing exists.