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Mass Deportations
Senate Hearing on Mass Deportations Was a Circus [VIDEOS]
Republicans continued to villainize immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean while being quiet about many other immigration issues
On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on mass deportations that was nothing short of a chaotic mess and Republican grandstanding built around the idea that most Latin American and Caribbean Island immigrants in the U.S. are in the country illegally. While the focus was on immigrants who commit crimes, for Republicans, what was apparent was that any migrant who crossed the southern border to seek asylum was a criminal by default.
Blanket assertions and cherry-picking a few crimes committed by migrants are what drive policy ideas like mass deportations. Misinformation about the Biden administration bypassing existing laws to allow migrants to enter the country was also a key tenet of the Republican narrative. The reality is that the Biden administration’s enforcement policies repatriated more than 3.5 million migrants and made claiming asylum more difficult than any other president in recent history.
During opening statements, the Policy Director of the American Immigration Council (AIC), Aaron…
