.HayesBrown: President Biden has to rein in his tough talk on immigration — because it's impressing nobody.
has Democrats backing Biden on most immigration-related matters by only the slimmest of margins — if that. Fifty-one percent of those surveyed generally approve of the administration’s treatment of undocumented immigrants. The same number approve of Biden’s handling of immigration overall. When asked whether the Biden team has been too aggressive or too lax or whether it’s acting appropriately on deportations, 49 percent of Democrats chose option three.
These numbers tell me two things: 1) Biden’s never going to win over Republican voters on immigration, not with the current state of the party, and 2) Trying to give himself cover politically from GOP attacks is failing miserably. ThisSince Biden took office, Republicans have been successfully using immigration, their most politically salient policy holdover from the Trump era, as a wedge issue.
Biden’s standing among GOP and independent voters on immigration is the result of that messaging blitz. And, ironically, most of the things Republicans are calling for are things the administration isannounced a “border security plan” Wednesday that included, among other things, reinstating the so-called Remain in Mexico policy, which forces migrants to wait for asylum hearings on the southern side of the U.S. border, and enforcing the Title 42 public health ban on asylum-seekers’ crossing into the U.S. Federal courts have already
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