These highly organized and well funded voices crowd out constituent voices, and that needs to stop because it’s led to all sorts of nonsensical losing campaign ad strategies and irrational policy decisions that both insult and materially harm people.
Who are these dipshit wonks who fell for the polling that legal immigration is unpopular or that most people dislike immigrants, based basically on a lot of silly polling that asked right-wing framed questions? Some of this polling would just ask vague questions or straight up “Do you want foreigners taking your job & completely open borders or no?” They never asked “Do you want people who immigrated ‘the right way’ stripped of their legal status?” Politicians need to start hearing specifics from their constituents.
My letter to reps:
I don’t think immigrants who did all the right paperwork the right way should be stripped of their legal status just to meet some arbitrary quota of deportations because someone over-promised the amount of migrant workers that could be found to have committed crimes. It’s not even fair to the ICE workers. And it’s really unfair to people following the rules like my ancestors.
Please feel free to copy or repurpose for your own letters to reps.
My grandfather who was an immigrant from Poland.