Castro takes aim at Biden on immigration

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11. Have you look at the polls on decriminalization?

Castro wants to decriminalize crossing the border ...get rid of statue 1325...It is a bad idea for our chances on winning the 2020 election...we could lose the house as well. The article below is from former Obama folks and it details the risks for us. Please note it is published in the hill- so stop with the right wing talking points crap. We don't accuse other DU'ers of being right wing or mouthing right wing talking points which this clearly is not. The GOP will use this issue to destroy us in the general. It would be a damn shame if the left snatched defeat from the jaws of victory and gave Trump another four years to destroy this country.

...Former Obama administration officials are warning Democratic presidential candidates to back off from their proposals to decriminalize border crossings, saying that it’s bad policy and a surefire general election loser that gives President Trump an opening on immigration.

'...In an op-ed in The Washington Post this week, former Obama Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said that decriminalization would attract hundreds of thousands of new migrants to the southern border. He described the proposal as “tantamount to declaring declaring publicly that we have open borders.”

'...But the former Obama officials worried that the debate over decriminalization, which has low support in the polls, will level the playing field on an issue where Democrats should have the political high ground...'

...,The Trump campaign’s war room has been blasting out emails hitting the Democrats for supporting “open borders” and cycling footage of the candidates raising their hands on the question of decriminalization through its Twitter feed.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/452531-democrats-warn-push-for-border-crossing-decriminalization-will-prove-costly