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#1661 Immigration is Actively Good for the Country Unless You're Racist


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Air Date 10/8/2024

Immigration dominates our politics in the worst way because one side benefits from lying about it and the other can't get their messaging together to create an effective rebuttal. Opposing immigration and stoking blatantly racist arguments doesn't just make the right bad or unsavory, it also makes them wrong on literally all of the facts.

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KEY POINTS

KP 1: Trump & Vance are Reviving Dangerous Racist Myths To Win 2024 Election - Thom Hartmann Program - Air Date 9-16-24

KP 2: Fascism Expert Jason Stanley on Project 2025, Great Replacement Theory, Attacks on Immigrants & Gaza - Democracy Now! - Air Date 9-15-24

KP 3: The Daily Blast Trumps Angry, Unhinged New Rant About Fox News Offers Hidden Warning Part 1 - Deep State Radio - Air Date 9-30-24

KP 4: Did Donald TRUMP Make Germany RACIST Again - Thom Hartmann Program - Air Date 9-27-24

KP 5: The Daily Blast Trumps Angry, Unhinged New Rant About Fox News Offers Hidden Warning Part 2 - Deep State Radio - Air Date 9-30-24

KP 6: Trump's rhetoric on immigrants gets even darker - The ReidOut - Air Date 9-27-24

KP 7: Paola Ramos Explains the Rise of the Latino Far Right and Growing Anti-Immigrant Sentiments - LeBatardShow - Air Date 9-26-24

(55:21) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

On what Democrats need to do on immigration messaging

Articles:

The Democrats’ Shameful, Foolish Surrender on Immigration

Kamala Harris Needs to Meet the Moment and Reframe Our Poisonous Immigration Debate

DEEPER DIVES

(1:01:12) SECTION A - DISINFORMATION

(1:14:11) SECTION B - WHITE SUPREMACY

(1:37:38) SECTION C - LATINO ANTI-IMMIGRATION VIEWS

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Description: A stenciled image on a metal trailer structure shows the words “I stand with immigrants” in the shape of a rectangle.

Credit: “Stand with immigrants” by Quinn Dombrowski, Flickr  | License: CC BY-SA 2.0 | Changes: Added lower metal space and increased contrast.

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