The former Chicago Mayor and US Amb to Japan is warming a run for President in 2028….
The Washington Post has a piece on Emmanuel talking about addressing the American Immigration Policies and Laws , something that ebbs and flows in the hand of the current US President….
Trump’s aggressive actions have been seen as to far….
Biden’s immigration policies?….
Not enough….
The next American President WILL have to deal with a different playing field altogether in Immigration enforcement in America…
The issue for policy is complex with ramifications in several different places including the US Economy…
No political issue has roiled American politics more over the last decade than immigration. President Donald Trump used it to win over voters in his 2016 upset win. Democrats lurched to the left on the issue during the 2020 presidential primaries, with many pledging to decriminalize illegal border crossing, and the surge of immigrants at the southern border under President Joe Biden helped propel Trump back to the White House in 2024. And the chaos on American streets over the past year, the result of Trump’s push for aggressive immigration enforcement that led to the killings of American citizens, has been one of the greatest liabilities of the president’s second term….
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In an effort to kick-start that conversation, Emanuel, the former mayor of Chicago who is ruminating on a possible presidential run in 2028, is publicly endorsing the Dignity Act, a bipartisan immigration reform lawpushed by Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-Texas) and Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-Florida). The bill includes immigration priorities from both parties: investments in physical border barriers and Border Patrol, no pathway to citizenship for those here illegally and mandated employment verification for Republicans; and a pathway to legal status, protections for those brought to the country illegally as children and more humanitarian protections at the border for Democrats….
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First, very few elected Democrats with higher political ambition are looking to tackle full-scale immigration reform. As he told us, the issue has stymied many who have attempted to tackle it, often turning those failures into political attacks — just look at Marco Rubio in the 2016 Republican presidential primary. And Democrats have recently struggled to find the right message on the issue, too, as evidenced by Vice President Kamala Harris’s difficulties with it during her 2024 run….
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“I’m going to be frank and honest … I don’t come to this with clean hands,” he said. “I know that.”
He specifically mentioned his role in Operation Gatekeeper, a Clinton-backed policy in 1994 aimed at “prevention through deterrence” that is often credited with some of the first militarization at the Southern border.
And he went further with that honesty, faulting Democrats for moving too far to the left on immigration during the 2020 presidential election and the way Republicans have “given a permission slip for law enforcement to become lawless and kill Americans for exercising the First Amendment right.”…..
Note….
Emmanuel IS gonna take political abuse on this from within his party…..
NOT dealing with millions of immigrants that have been in America for years and decades is NOT gonna fly with Emanuel’s left , as will ANY suggestion of increased enforcement ….
He IS trying to read the polling…..
But the polling IS about the general election, NOT Democratic primaries I believe….
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