On Tuesday, the House Committee on Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability marked the ninth hearing in nine weeks the Republican House majority has held a hearing about the border, but like the previous eight hearings Republicans were only there for political theater and to further promote...
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Republicans invited Center for Immigration Studies Fellow, Andrew Arthur, and Border Patrol union president, Brandon Judd to testify at an Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability Subcommittee hearing House Republicans are continuing a disturbing pattern of using their slim majority to provide a validating platform to individuals associated with hate groups...
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In recent months, there has been an increase in Chinese nationals encountered along the southern border seeking asylum from the repressive government in China. Blowing past the humanity of migrants seeking safety, Republicans have gone straight to racist fearmongering and conspiracy theories. Following an all too familiar pattern, Republicans...
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On March 15, the House Homeland Security Committee held the seventh hearing ostensibly about the border in seven weeks. Like the prior six hearings, Republicans continue to use these hearings to perform their political theatrics for a spot on Fox News without a substantive policy discussion, while some members...
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On March 14, 2023, migrants seeking asylum in El Paso were stopped and turned back at the border, but Republicans moved misleading videos and messages around Fox News and the Internet, calling it an “invasion” anyway, echoing deadly domestic terrorists. On Sunday, hundreds of mostly Venezuelan migrants who...
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CPAC presents a disturbing picture of the trajectory of the GOP and its barely contained fascism. Over the first weekend in March, many of the top figures in and around the Republican Party gathered just outside of DC for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). From start to...
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The House Homeland Security Committee held its first hearing supposedly about addressing the challenges at the border on February 28. But, this was actually the fifth such GOP committee hearing in as many weeks on this subject. Like the prior four hearings, the Republican majority was there for political...
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Sporting a large tan cowboy hat, a bulletproof vest with the words “SHERIFF” blazoned across his chest, and an assault weapon, Mark Lamb likes to dress up for the cameras. First elected Pinal County Sheriff in 2017, Lamb has turned himself into a far-right celebrity who is frequently dawning...
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On February 23, an all-Republican delegation of the House Judiciary Committee held a field hearing in Yuma, Arizona, the fourth hearing in four weeks ostensibly about the border. And in all four hearings, they have amplified white nationalist conspiracy theories and failed to offer a substantive policy discussion on...
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Republicans have used their narrow majority in the House to call congressional hearings ostensibly about the border that they have instead used to amplify white nationalist conspiracy theories and other pernicious nativist disinformation. Several of the witnesses Republicans have already invited to testify at these hearings have described migrants...
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