{"id":22134,"date":"2019-11-05T08:35:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T13:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=22134"},"modified":"2019-11-05T08:35:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T13:35:15","slug":"democrats-cuccinelli-attacks-racism-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/11\/05\/democrats-cuccinelli-attacks-racism-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"House Democrat Attacks Immigration Chief as \u201cWhite Supremacist\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Defamatory name-calling is becoming a disturbing and\npopular method to silence those with opposing viewpoints in American politics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During a House Oversight and Reform subcommittee last week, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) lambasted<\/a> acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Ken Cuccinnelli, simply for his views on the nation\u2019s immigration policies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using hyperbole, Wasserman Schultz stated, \u201cYou and Mr.\nTrump don\u2019t want anyone who looks or talks differently than Caucasian Americans\nto be allowed in this country.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rather than allowing him to respond to the smear,\nWassermann Schultz continued, \u201cYou want to block all immigration and make life\nharder for immigrants, and you have demonstrated that you will pursue this\nheinous white supremacist ideology at all costs, even if it means making critically\nill children your collateral damage in the process, and this goes to a\ncomprehensive pattern of harm at the USCIS under your leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite not providing a single piece of evidence to support\nher claims, the lawmaker continued to degrade Cuccinelli and denied him any\nopportunity to defend his reputation at a hearing attended and watched by many.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The radical Wasserman Schultz did not back away from her claims despite having a couple days to collect herself. In a CNN interview<\/a>, she doubled-down on her remarks saying, \u201cKen Cuccinelli is the tip of the spear of a white supremacist ideology that is the thread of the President’s immigration policy targeting people of color.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cuccinnelli had the opportunity to set the record straight in a follow-up interview with Fox News<\/a>. \u201c\u2026she wasn\u2019t at much of the committee hearing. She came in, laid on her smears on both me and the president\u2014all completely false, and then wasn\u2019t there much longer\u2026It was a fly by for her to get her little soundbite. \u201c <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Congresswoman\u2019s remarks are worrisome, to say the\nleast. Conflating an appointed government official who simply aims to reform\nthe nation\u2019s immigration policies to prioritize Americans (of all ethnic\nbackgrounds) and bon a fide immigrants with those who believe that whites are\nsuperior to other races, is a complete disgrace and contributes to the growing\npolarization of the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an elected public official, Wasserman Schultz must\nrecognize the power of her words and stop with the political theatre. Ad\nhominem attacks have no place in American political discourse, especially when\nthe nation is looking for solutions to solve its border crisis. Congresswoman Wasserman\nSchultz\u2019s constituents deserve better from her. Democrats deserve better from\nher. And Americans deserve better from her. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Defamatory name-calling is becoming a disturbing and popular method to silence those with opposing viewpoints in American politics. During a House Oversight and Reform subcommittee last week, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) lambasted acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Ken Cuccinnelli, simply for his views on the nation\u2019s immigration policies. Using hyperbole, Wasserman<\/p>\n

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