Maya Rupert: It Would Be a Mistake for Dems to Adopt Hillary Clinton’s Thinking That Migration ‘Went Too Far’

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RUPERT: “Well, I appreciate Secretary Clinton, but I think honestly it is a mistake for Democrats to adopt that sort of positioning. And I think really Republican talking points around -- around immigration, I think that it's not a matter of did it go too far. There was a point at which we talked about immigration as a holistic thing, it was a comprehensive system. Republicans were successful in getting us to talk about it only in terms of enforcement, so we're only talking about deportation. But the fact that we sort of conceded the point that there should be a way for folks who have been living in the country, who are working, who are part of the engine that drives the economy and the fabric of communities, that there should be a way for people to get citizenship, when that conversation went away, that was around the same time we started seeing more chaos around the border. Those things aren't disconnected. So I think what we should do as Democrats is use this moment to reorient the conversation, so that we're not just talking about who's deporting and how many people, but really are we creating a system where we recognize that immigration is a big piece of it, that we can address the issue of undocumented folks, we can do it humanely.”