“Senator, they have to go back.”
Those are the reprehensible words of a MAGA Republican state representative in Arizona defending an amendment that targets DACA recipients with deportation.
Arizona Republicans are now voicing the quiet part out loud when it comes to House Concurrent Resolution 2060, an anti-immigrant initiative they hope to place on the ballot this November. They want to open the floodgates of persecution and racial profiling on Black and Brown Arizonans.
Republicans want to see Dreamers and their families jailed and deported. They want to see Donald Trump’s vision of ending birthright citizenship, deportation camps and mass deportations become a reality.
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HCR2060 is a reckless bill that reaches far beyond the border, threatening to devastate immigrant communities hundreds of miles away. It does nothing to address the humanitarian crisis at the border. Instead, it is a cynical ploy to use Arizona as a testing ground for the extreme policies championed by Trump.
This bill is designed to …
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