Politicians and media pundits quickly reduce this mounting humanitarian crisis to 'border security,'" wrote Farrah Hassen of the Institute for Policy Studies at OtherWords in January. The Biden administration has garnered condemnation from progressives and human rights advocates for a number of anti-immigration policies, including hisĮxpansion of the Trump-era Title 42 expulsion policy and his current reported consideration of migrant family detentions.Īs the Trump and Biden administrations have pushed anti-immigration programs, advocates have maintained that the "crisis" at the border is one of denying asylum-seekers their internationally recognized right to seek refuge in another country. None - spokesperson for the committee's Republicans claimed the Democrats were attempting to "distract from President Biden's border crisis and their failure to conduct oversight of it for two years," and did not address the embrace of the Great Replacement theory by Republican lawmakers and domestic terrorists. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) claimed an "invasion" by migrants and asylum-seekers is taking hold at the U.S.-Mexico border. via the southern border are "changing our culture" and both Reps. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.)Īsked whether immigrants arriving in the U.S. Raskin sent the statement along with a letter to committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), saying he was driven to call on his 26 Republican colleagues to sign on to the statement after the panel held a hearing in February titled "On the Front Lines of the Border Crisis." "These hateful and dangerous ideologies have no place in the work of the United States Congress or our committee," reads the statement. Statement condemning "white nationalism and white supremacy in all its forms, including the 'Great Replacement' conspiracy theory," which claims that white Americans are intentionally being "replaced" by people of color, particularly through immigration policy. Raskin (D-Md.) was joined by all 20 Democrats on the committee in signing a brief, straightforward House Oversight and Accountability Committee this week warned that Republicans doubled down on "a dangerous lie" when they refused to back a statement denouncing white supremacy. 28, 2022, saying it was "a serious but curable form of cancer." Later in January, Raskin said that he was "hanging tough" and that his "energy is good" amid the treatment.Led by ranking member Rep. Raskin announced his cancer diagnosis on Dec. Thank you for everything you said about us hanging tough for democracy and freedom against all the autocrats and all the theocrats and all the plutocrats of the world, from Putin and Moscow to Trump in Mar-a-Lago, all over the world," the Maryland congressman said. 6 committee, thank you for everything you said about the impeachment trial. "Thank you for everything you said about the Jan. 6 committee and during the impeachments of former President Donald Trump.ĬLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER The frequent Trump critic also took time to thank supporters for their comments on his work on the Jan. And of course, a bunch of people sent me my own true blue Democrat mask.” I’ve got people’s own chemo hats that worked for them from a place called Alex’s Lemonade Stand. "I’ve got my own constitutional preamble bandanna,” Raskin said.
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