Democrats in Congress think they finally can beat Donald Trump on immigration
Senior Democrats this week leaped into the debate over border policy — livestreaming their trips to detention facilities, calling for the ouster of Department of Homeland Security officials and mobilizing the party around “a battle cry to protect the children.”It’s a stark shift for Democratic leaders who have largely tried to avoid immigration, an issue that has divided their party and which Trump has used as a political bludgeon.
Democrats have some data to back up their confidence: At a closed-door caucus meeting last week, officials hired by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee shared results of a recent poll in battleground districts that showed Democrats holding a significant advantage over Republicans when it comes to immigration messaging.
In private this week, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders have vowed to continue ramping up their response to the migrant crisis, with plans to demand more protections for those detained — possibly through an upcoming spending bill, “I strongly believe in border security, and I believe that our immigration system is broken and requires a major overhaul,” Slotkin said in a statement announcing her planned trip. “But let me be clear: There is no rationale that excuses how our government is treating the migrants, in particular the migrant children, currently in its care.”
This week, the party seized on the litany of scandals. Democrats in the House launched a formal probe of the secret Facebook group within hours of its emergence Monday. poster="http://v.politico.com/images/1155968404/201906/1968/1155968404_6053693764001_6053691122001-vs.jpg?pubId=1155968404"The broadside from Schumer comes days after the New York Democrat became the target of progressive ire, after he and other Senate Democrats sided with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over House Democrats in the border funding dispute.
Immigration is still a vexing political issue for Democrats, with major divides over whether to rein in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or abolish ICE altogether. And several lawmakers and aides have acknowledged the party has struggled in the past to articulate its immigration vision, particularly when they’re attempting to respond to Trump’s bombastic rhetoric.
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