The provenance of this quote:
- Wu goes on GBH and says: "Every person, every single human being, has the legal right to come to the United States and seek asylum or shelter, and those policies have been in place for a long time."
- The clip is cut into this quote: "Every person, every single human being, has the legal right to come to the United States and seek asylum or shelter."
- That goes viral; a clickbait account shortens the quote, changes the meaning, gives no source.
There's a larger policy story in that Wu quote. Liberal immigration law/like-minded judges have created a system that makes it much harder to deport people, and the Trump admin is trying to undo that.
The smaller social media story: You can mangle a quote and put a photo on it, and most people won't check the source, because they want to react for clicks/moral preening.
I would offer that Alex Pretti putting his body—with his hands up—between a woman and the BP agent who had just violently shoved her into the snow, offer stark competing visions of manhood. Pretti, a nurse caring for veterans, who took a face full of pepper spray to shield that woman, is a much better masculine ideal that the masked coward shoving the woman and executing a man on his knees. MAGA may venerate the latter, but most people in a healthy society want the former.
That’s a shame. If your Republican representative won’t meet with you because their agenda is so unpopular, maybe a Democrat will.
Hell, maybe I will. If your congressman refuses to meet, I’ll come host an event in their district to help local Democrats beat ‘em.
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