Throughout Wednesday’s Home Judiciary listening to on “Restoring Immigration Enforcement in America,” Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas did some debunking of the GOP’s most racist and ignorant mythmaking regarding undocumented immigrants’ crime charges and tax burdens.
“I do want to be clear. Federal law already, no matter if it’s under the Biden administration or if it’s under a Republican administration,” Crockett stated, “we all agree that we want to be safe.”
She reiterated that the Laken Riley Act, which was handed by the Senate on Monday, and can strip away due course of for undocumented immigrants who’re accused of against the law, is an egregious and inhumane overstepping of authority.
“I want to play a little game with you,” Crocket stated to witness David Bier, who’s the director of Immigration Research on the CATO Institute. Bier has been essential of Trump and the Republican Social gathering’s disingenuous dealing with of immigration coverage and enforcement in our nation.
“It’s called ‘rhetoric versus reality,’” Crockett continued. “Is this rhetoric or reality? Immigrants commit more crimes than U.S. citizens.”
“Rhetoric,” Bier responded.
Crockett acquired the identical responses from Bier when she requested if “immigrants are just living off the federal government and contribute nothing,” and whether or not “immigrants only enter at the southern border.”
Crockett then requested Bier in regards to the perpetrators of assorted shootings throughout the nation. Crockett requested about horrible shootings just like the one which befell in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015, of 9 Black parishioners on the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. She additionally requested a couple of taking pictures in El Paso, Texas, in 2020, at a Walmart, focusing on Latinos, that resulted within the demise of 23 individuals. Her final query was in regards to the 10 Black individuals shot and killed at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store in 2022.
“In fact, in each of these cases, it was white supremacists,” Crockett stated.
Crockett is definitely one of many shining stars within the Democratic Social gathering and continues to work fearlessly within the face of blistering ignorance and bigotry.
Watch her complete dialogue right here:
