Daily Beast: “Republicans are crazy about immigration. No, really. The issue makes them loco. Just listen to the things they’re saying. Many of them have lost touch with reality. Or maybe Republicans are crazy like a fox. The GOP seems to have once again pinned all of its hopes for retaking power – in this case, by winning back control of the Senate in the 2022 midterm elections and possibly regaining seats in the House of Representatives – on the immigration issue. If either of those things happen, Republicans will be in decent shape to try to retake the White House in 2024. President Joe Biden has only been in office for about 60 days, and Republicans who want to attack him and his administration don’t have a lot of material with which to work. So they’ve settled on immigration as the issue they’ll use to try to drag Biden down. Case in point: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy leads a delegation of Republicans to the border Monday.”

“That’s what some of the current fearmongering over the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border – about half of it – is all about. The other half is made up of good ol’ fashioned nativism and racism. That’s one reason why Republicans act like the prospect of what could turn out to be 100,000 would-be refugees from Central America mostly women and children (only one in four of whom will be allowed to stay, in all likelihood) is the end of Western civilization as we know it. The whole argument is absurd. The same nation that was, nearly 250 years ago, born of revolution against what was then the world’s greatest colonial power, survived its own bloody Civil War, helped win two world wars, won the Cold War, and bounced back from the 9/11 terrorist attacks, is now going to be brought to her knees by 25,000 women and children fleeing violence and chaos?”