"Also it just outrageous and he's doing it for political gain,” Sen Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, the first and only Latina senator, told The Independent, noting how Mr Trump’s own family includes immigrants. But when asked about negotiating on immigration, she dodged.

“I think it is important that we have Ukraine funding, Israel funding all of the above, and it needs to happen,” she told me.

:blm-bomber:

Sen Mark Kelly of Arizona, who won a full term in the Senate last year in a closely-watched race, told The Independent Mr Trump’s words were “a racist and xenophobic thing to say.” But when asked about the negotiations, he said the Senate needed to pass an immigration plan that could pass both chambers.

We're in a timeline where the overt fascist party is being lead by one of the dumbest mouthbreathers to ever walk this planet, and the 'opposition' party is just agreeing with his intentions (if not his words) wholeheartedly, Israel and Ukraine just being convenient cover for that.

Liberals should want to fedposting their representative's offices, but all they're gonna do is make some calls, write some letters, and tut-tut each other at brunch

[–] huf@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

they wont even do that, cos they too agree that more camps are needed at the border