Immigration: A Winning Issue For Democrats?
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🗓️ 14 February 2024
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The Congressman won his seat – which until recently had been held by disgraced Republican George Santos – by diving head on into an issue that democrats would usually rather avoid – immigration.
Was that the opening chapter in a playbook Suozzi is writing, for fellow Democrats trying to find a way to deal with the thorny political issue of immigration?
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| 0:00.0 | Shortly after seven on Tuesday night there was a historic vote in the House chamber. |
| 0:04.8 | On this vote, the Yaser 214 and the Naser 213, the resolution is adopted. |
| 0:12.2 | It was close and almost straight down party lines, but in the end the House of |
| 0:17.2 | Representatives passed a resolution to impeach Homeland Security Secretary |
| 0:22.1 | Alejandro Myorkus. |
| 0:23.6 | Tuesday's vote is only the second time in US history and the first in nearly 150 years |
| 0:30.4 | that a member of the President's cabinet has been impeached. |
| 0:33.6 | The reason, say Republicans, the situation at the southern border. |
| 0:37.8 | The Articles of Impeachment accused the Homeland Security Secretary of |
| 0:42.0 | failing to detain migrants at the border and resisting |
| 0:45.8 | congressional oversight. |
| 0:47.8 | These charges have been met with skepticism by legal experts. |
| 0:51.4 | Democrats accuse Republicans of using the impeachment to score political |
| 0:55.5 | points on immigration. |
| 0:57.4 | And the GOP may well have accomplished that. |
| 1:00.4 | Polls repeatedly show immigration is a top concern for voters, |
| 1:04.8 | and one that they don't think the Biden administration has handled well. |
| 1:08.4 | But... |
| 1:08.9 | We won! |
| 1:09.7 | Just a couple of hours after Republicans in Congress impeached |
| 1:14.7 | myorkas Democrat Tom Swazi won in a special election in New York's third |
| 1:20.3 | congressional district. Despite all the attacks, despite all the lies about Tom Swazi and the squad, about Tom Swazi being the godfather of the migrant crisis. |
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