Releasing vicious monsters into our communities to rape, maim, and murder.

It's just tough to watch it in real time to watch some of these corroded messages start to spread

precisely because women are trying to develop a sense of community.

If we don't continue to welcome people here, the economy is just going to grind to a halt.

We're not criminals. We might be hurt. We might be broken, but we're not criminals.

Hi. I'm Rachel Vindman.

Welcome back to the American Fabric, a special three-episode series about immigration.

Today, we're looking at some of the myths and disinformation about immigrants, from crime to the economy to our election process.

Extremists want us to be afraid of immigrants, and they want to terrify suburban women in particular.

Remember Senator Katie Britt's response to the state of the union?

From fentanyl poisonings to horrific murders, there are empty chairs tonight at kitchen

tables just like this one because of President Biden's senseless border policies.

So why suburban women? Suburban women represent as a lot of politicians probably see it,

sort of the heart of the American family. That's Dr. Andrea Bonnier, a psychologist and the author of the

long-running Washington Post column, Baggage Check.

And so if we can get to them and shake their worldview, that's where the power is,

because they influence their children's views.

And we can sort of get in there and have them raise their children with this.

They literally influence their children's behavior on a daily basis.

And suburban women even who aren't moms kind of represent maybe in this way, this kind of

idealized, you know, hey, they're reaching higher educational attainment levels now than some men.

They're maybe have just more purchasing power. They're forced to be reckoned with,

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