Commentary: Republicans weaponized 'amnesty' to make undocumented immigrants suffer. Let's take it back
by Lawrence Downes, Los Angeles Times
Jun 02, 2020
3 minutes
The scene in the TV ad: a football locker room. A man walks toward the camera, looking us dead in the eye. His name is Tommy Tuberville. He is a Republican, a former football coach, running for the United States Senate in Alabama. He makes three promises.
"We'll drain the swamp," he says. "Build the wall. No amnesty, ever."
I can understand "drain the swamp" and "build the wall" - Coach Tuberville has borrowed Donald Trump's MAGA chorus. But "no amnesty"?
Was anyone talking about amnesty? We are
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