Republicans find their voice as the resistance to the resistance
Republicans find their voice as the resistance to the resistance
- April 4, 2018
- Louis DeSipio, Chicano/Latino studies and poli sci, via the San Francisco Chronicle, April 4, 2018
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The GOP is expressing its anti-resistance by taking on California’s sanctuary state
laws. … Such a strategy ignores “all of the empirical evidence (that) shows that immigrants
— unauthorized or not — commit far fewer criminal acts” than others, said Louis DeSipio,
professor of political science and Chicano studies at UC Irvine. “They are just trying
to use these examples to scare people.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Republicans-find-their-voice-as-the-resistance-to-12806420.php.
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