Some Democrats, like Senators Bernie Sanders and Chris Murphy and Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Maxwell Frost, have stuck their necks out in MAGA country to criticize Donald Trump and his co-president, Elon Musk. Others are using their congressional pulpit: Senator Cory Booker this week spoke for 25 hours straight on the Senate floor—a record for the chamber—to draw attention to Elon Musk’s gutting of the federal government. But these are the exceptions to the rule. The party does not have a unified response to Trump’s worst abuses, and that’s in part because they willingly enabled some of them.
“When that is your day-to-day worry, the philosophical conversations about a constitutional crisis or the democracy is simply not a luxury you can afford,” Kristen McDonald Rivet, a Michigan representative, told the Associated Press last month. “I’m not saying we shouldn’t worry about those things, because we should and they are important, but they are not primary in the minds of the people in Saginaw, Michigan.” Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota’s senior senator, was more succinct, telling The New York Times that egg prices are emblematic of a “bigger picture” of chaos, dysfunction, and broken promises.
But the Democrats don’t need a fully fleshed-out immigration policy. The Trump administration is giving them all of the material they need—all they have to do is speak up.
None of this has stopped the senior officials brazenly lying about what happened. Vice President JD Vance spent Tuesday morning viciously smearing Garcia as a “convicted MS-13 gang member.” That lie was later repeated by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who claimed to have seen evidence from the Department of Homeland Security that he was not just a “convicted” gang member but a leader of the violent MS-13 gang. Why would DHS, yet no one else, have evidence of that conviction? The simple answer is that Leavitt is lying. We know this because Trump administration lawyers already acknowledged that Garcia had been deported based on an error.
This is outrageous. It’s illegal. It’s un-American. The Trump administration is ruining the lives of innocent people all across the country. It is flagrantly ignoring due process while it treats anyone born outside this country, even those here legally, as a criminal and invader. Kilmar Abrego Garcia is neither of those things. He has followed the law by checking in with ICE every year, and he works full time as union sheet-metal apprentice to support a 5-year-old son with autism and a hearing defect. He’s precisely the kind of immigrant America should welcome.
Even if Democrats are too cowardly to speak about the importance of immigrants to America, and why we need more of them, they can speak out about this flagrant abuse of power against Garcia. They can do so while still casting themselves, as Kamala Harris tried and failed to do last fall, as the party who can keep the country safe by deporting only truly dangerous immigrants—and not destroying families with sloppy and lawless mass dragnets. There’s no better time for Democrats to put this issue at the center of the party’s “bigger picture.” With egg prices plummeting, they need a new message anyway.
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