{"id":23771,"date":"2020-10-21T16:16:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T20:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=23771"},"modified":"2020-10-21T16:16:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T20:16:19","slug":"immigration-presidential-debate-issue-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/10\/21\/immigration-presidential-debate-issue-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration Deserves Airtime at Thursday\u2019s Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If moderator Kristen Welker sticks to her script at Thursday night\u2019s presidential debate<\/a>, the subject of immigration will be off the table, again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the NBC newswoman\u2019s six designated topics —\nfighting COVID-19, American families, race in America, climate change, national\nsecurity and leadership \u2013 offer opportunities for President Donald Trump and\nDemocratic challenger Joe Biden to talk about immigration at length.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

National security, American families, race and leadership are inextricably tied to the subject. As Andrew Arthur<\/a> of the Center for Immigration Studies noted, \u201cMany if not all of those challenges are affected to one degree or another by our nation’s immigration policies.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welker\u2019s leading topic, fighting COVID-19, has an\nobvious nexus to immigration. From the beginning of the outbreak, government\nrestrictions on foreign travel were designed to prevent the spread of the virus\nand to preserve limited medical resources for those already in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese restrictions have received insignificant notice among American voters, except from those who criticize the administration’s response generally, likely because they\u00a0were\u00a0effective and because few pay attention to risks that never came to fruition,\u201d Arthur asserted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday night is an occasion for the president to hammer home the role that immigration policy plays in connection to health, national security and family, as well as jobs and the economy<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden\u2019s supporters reportedly are eager for their candidate to discuss immigration. \u201cWe should be talking about immigration in the context of the response and recovery to COVID-19,\u201d Ali Noorani, president of the nonpartisan National Immigration Forum, told Newsweek<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By all means, let\u2019s hear it. Such a discussion,\nhowever, could effectively expose Biden as a captive of his party\u2019s\nincreasingly radical positions on immigration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“His running mate\u00a0Kamala Harris<\/a>\u00a0wants to decriminalize illegal border crossing. Biden offers generous incentives for trespassers including taxpayer-funded healthcare and amnesty. These policies would effectively vaporize our border,\u201d Trump senior adviser Steven Cortes told Newsweek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Political insiders can spin immigration talking\npoints all day long. Better to hear the candidates speak to the issue directly\non Thursday night. How about it, Ms. Welker?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If moderator Kristen Welker sticks to her script at Thursday night\u2019s presidential debate, the subject of immigration will be off the table, again. But the NBC newswoman\u2019s six designated topics — fighting COVID-19, American families, race in America, climate change, national security and leadership \u2013 offer opportunities for President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe<\/p>\n

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