G.O.P. Memo Shows Road Map for Attacking Democrats on Immigration

[demmiblue]

Source: NYT

A document prepared by Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio shows how Republicans plan to weaponize the issue of immigration as part of their midterm campaign strategy.

WASHINGTON — House Republicans are planning to use an oversight hearing next week to attack the Biden administration on its immigration policies, according to a memo obtained by The New York Times that offers a road map for how the G.O.P. intends to further weaponize an issue that is already a main thrust of their midterm campaign message against Democrats.

The detailed, 60-page guidance memo includes misleading and provocative talking points that seek to portray migrants and refugees as perpetrators of gruesome crimes, especially those involving sexual assault, echoing the language that former President Donald J. Trump used to denigrate immigrants. It also argues that the Biden administration has been lax on illegal immigration, seeking to put Democrats on the defensive on the issue.

It comes as Democrats are growing increasingly concerned that President Biden’s immigration policies, including the recent decision to lift pandemic-era border restrictions next month, could pose a political liability for them ahead of the midterm elections.

The memo — which is marked “CONFIDENTIAL — FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY” — repeatedly insinuates that immigrants could be sex offenders, highlighting a handful of arrests at the southwestern border and of Afghan evacuees. It also misrepresents a Biden administration policy designed to humanely enforce immigration laws as one that would bar law enforcement from surveilling sex offenders near schoolyards.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/21/us/jim-jordan-republicans-memo-immigration.html

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[Anon-C]

1. Thank you!

[AZLD4Candidate]

2. More nativist, xenophobic red meat. They aren't the GOP. They are the Know-Nothings.

[bahboo]

3. say what you will...it seems to work....

a disgusting state of affairs, but it is what it is...

[certainot]

4. according to the ukranians this is a putin tactic, and it has been going on on rw radio for 30 years

putin has been using it all over the world and has been using rw radio all over the world to , for instance, tell central americans that dem presidents want them to come here - get on that caravan!

when the fuck are democrats and liberals goigng to wake up. the investigations into putin's use of rerpublican radio need to get going. social media and fox are smalll potatoes...

[Roy Rolling]

5. Ignore the GOP

They will never be better. “A person won’t understand something when their salary depends on them misunderstanding.”

Concentrate on branding Republicans with the word “weird”. As in, they’re not keeping the trains running on time they’re concerned with the developing sex lives of children. Or other weird stuff.

Go further, tell them Democrats used to be looked upon as “far out”, but those hippies of the sixties like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates grew up to be titans of industry by the 2000s. Now it’s Republicans who are weird and obsessed with tabloid issues when Democrats are tackling the serious issues of 2022 like infrastructure, education, and climate change.

Repositioning Republicans as the weird political party can win the midterms.

[DBoon]

7. "hippies of the sixties like Steve Jobs ..."

explains a lot of their attacks on big tech.

[DBoon]

6. They treat immigrants like Nazis treated Jews

a convenient scapegoat on which all our darkest fears are projected.

[JudyM]

8. Why don't we counter with a list of all the rethug sex offenders.

[MissMillie]

12. I don't think we need to "counter"

A lot of voters are naturalized citizens. Take this memo and make sure that all of those voters know that Gym and the GQP think their all murderers and rapists.




Throw the damn thing right back in their faces.

[JudyM]

13. I get your point. I also believe we should be conveying ugly truths about them as EarlG's graphics

repeatedly illustrate. Perhaps not as a counter, exactly, but as an offensive track.

[MissMillie]

14. the two-pronged approach is reasonable, and smart (n/t)

.

[JohnSJ]

9. and f**k Bloomberg, they started following that republican script this morning on their news

Their "big" news this morning was, "Biden sows confusion in key issues response on immigration." Saying he thought they were talking about mask policy with him. They were both pandemic related issue, but the specifics that has Bloomberg in a huff is about title 42, and the federal mask mandate .

The WH did clarify the remarks later in the day, but then Bloomberg decided to add this"

"It comes at a time where Democrats within his party are questioning his decision to roll back this immigration provision by May 23. They say they need more time to come up with a plan coming to the Southern border, and worried there will be a giant surge. These are lawmakers within his own party."

"It also comes at a time when republicans have been questioning his mental health, questioning his ability to do his job........" blah blah blah

and then at the end of that segment, add:

"questioning whether Biden will be able to serve out his term, coming out with his slumping poll numbers"

I am so fucking sick of the bullshit that gets bantered about on the airwaves by the media.

Not one word on McCarthy and other republican leaders outright lying about their actions about trump during and after the insurrection, much which had been recorded on tape, and was reported on Maddow's program last night.

We sure don't want to paint the republicans in too negative of a light, with their hypocrisy, lies and machiavellian ideology to retain power at all cost, putting their loyalty to trump before the Constitution.

[oldsoftie]

10. Is this supposed to be surprise? Its not. Because it IS an issue like it or not.

And as polls have shown its also an issue with hispanics. I already knew this since my area has a far above average Hispanic population.

[AZProgressive]

19. Xenophobic framing is different than taking a policy position on immigration

[oldsoftie]

20. I doubt Hispanics are guilty of that.

Again, we can look the other way to feel better about it but it doesnt change reality. While the Hispanic voting population is solidly Democratic, its not a total lock. Trump got a higher percentage of them in 20 than 16. Weird but it happened. And we gotta pay attention.

[AZProgressive]

21. I was mainly talking about the OP

Calling migrants sex offenders is a lie. Their rhetoric is a lie and if they win it will be based on lies. As far as burying heads I don’t think Democrats should be saying “Mexicans are rapists” in order to win the election.

I seen a poll that more Latino voters in Texas favor Democrats immigration policy over Republicans. I doubt the reason why Biden did worse than Clinton and Obama is because of immigration especially since the Obama administration pushed for immigration reform.

Policy positions are fine, lies are not.

[Emile]

11. So Trump didn't build a wall and didn't fix the border. Got it!

[The Jungle 1]

15. Well what did he do with all that money Mexico gave him to build a wall?

[Emile]

16. and that too!

[KS Toronado]

17. So what's GYM Jordan's solution to immigration?

Keep everybody out including Ukrainians? Only allow pure blue eyed northern European Anglo Saxons in?
He needs to be asked 24/7 what his plans are for immigration.

[Icanthinkformyself]

18. Media framing

can be positive, negative or neutral. The way the issue is written about will influence the perception of the consumer. The guidance in the memo are not 'misleading' and 'provocative' talking points. They are lies, misinformation and disinformation. Why would the NYT not want to be truthful and tell it like it is? Ah, yes. They have to maintain access to the Fear, Fraud and Fascism Party. When that Group Of Pedophiles take over, the free press will disappear quickly.

[ck4829]

22. Leak more of their data and playbooks