GOP Candidates Continue to Promote Fear, Misinformation about Refugee “Caravan”
According to UNICEF, 2,300 children are traveling with the migrant caravan. They “need protection and access to essential services like healthcare, clean water and adequate sanitation.”
Even in an election year, is it responsible to refer to these children as an “illegal alien mob” as Marsha Blackburn, candidate for Senate in Tennessee does routinely on social media?
Or is it the basis for a sober, public debate on policy for an elected official to post unsupported conspiracy theories sourced from TownHall — a site with a track record of posting outright fabrications — that Venezuela’s government is somehow in cahoots with drug gangs, MS-13 and human traffickers to arrange the whole thing, as Congressman Scott DesJarlais has done?
Words like “mob” or “invasion” may incite a base of voters concerned about immigration policy, but where do we go from there?
Let me be clear —economic migrants do not have an automatic right to enter the United States or to be permanently settled. It is entirely legal to remove such people and return them to their country of origin…
