09-19-2022, 05:23 PM
(09-19-2022, 03:26 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Why would Republicans lock immigrant kids up and separate babies from mothers?
They see them as subhuman. There's a great doc called 9500 Liberty (circa 2007) that follows a DC suburb's local fight over immigration. They read comments from the local right-wing blog and the language they use for the kids is horrendous: saying they can be used as dog food, calling them parasites, "the usual suspects", "brown faces".
I'd say the right wing's inability to see "other people" as equal combined with their zeal for "America First" politics puts them in league with some unsavory groups, but I'd be accused of being lazy and losing an argument to a conservative to draw such a conclusion.