Sen. Chris Murphy’s comments about prioritizing undocumented immigrants received backlash from conservatives and immigration experts.
His use of the term “undocumented Americans” sparked criticism, with some suggesting it revealed the Democratic Party’s stance on the issue.
Critics accused Democrats of prioritizing immigrants over citizens and pushing far-left policies in the failed senate border bill.
“Well, I mean, Chris, that’s been a failed play for 20 years. So you are right that that has been the Democratic strategy for 30 years, maybe, and it has failed to deliver for the people we care about most, the undocumented Americans that are in this country,” Murphy said.
The bill was described as a “wish list” for Democrats and criticized for not addressing border security effectively.
“This is what they call giving away the entire game,” former Trump advisor Stephen Miller said. “This is why Democrats angrily oppose every enforcement measure. This is why Democrats bitterly oppose detention and deportation. This is why Joe Biden and the Democrats eradicated the border and orchestrated the invasion.”
“Points for clarity and honesty,” Andrew Klavan said. “Points off for wicked anti-American dirtbaggery.”
“Democrats want to ‘rescue’ ‘undocumented Americans,’” Fox News’ Katie Pavlich wrote. “Ridiculous and exactly why Republicans refused to go along with their scheme.”
“’Undocumented Americans,’” New Discourses founder James Lindsay wrote. “Critical Immigration Theory, designed to sublate national citizenship and sovereignty, is coming.”
“When Democrats tell you who they are, believe them,” columnist Derek Hunter said.
There were concerns about the impact of accommodating illegal immigrants on education, healthcare, and social services.
“It’s stunning to hear a United States senator declare that his top priority is to accommodate people from other countries who broke our laws to get here, not to give relief to the citizens in his state who are forced to underwrite all of the costs associated with the border crisis that was instigated by Joe Biden,” Center for Immigration Studies director Jessica Vaughan said.
“I think Murphy grasps the political reality that most Americans don’t support open borders and an unlimited international right to migrate anywhere you want,” Simon Hankinson said. “If they keep forcing Americans to assume an endless burden on education, healthcare, police, social services, and their tax liability, it may not be an electoral winner. Look at New York, Chicago, Denver, Boston.”
“Murphy was obviously invested in the bill he helped broker. But to jam 30 years of immigration wish-list reforms into this supplemental package, call the $20 billion spent on bringing inadmissible aliens into the U.S. ‘border security,’ and blame the bill’s certain defeat on Republicans, is pure politics,” Hankinson said.
“The Senate border bill in the Supplemental was one step forward and five steps back. Without going through it exhaustively, it would not stop massive asylum fraud, catch-and-release, and parole abuse. Worst of all, it gives discretion on enforcement to Biden and Mayorkas, who have proven unworthy of such power. And more besides.”
“Democrats have long wanted a ‘pathway to citizenship’ – which means amnesty. The problem with amnesty is first, it rankles American’s sense of fairness to see people who jumped the line ahead of millions who want to come here, some of whom are waiting patiently in the legal system,” Hankinson added. “Second, conservatives got burned with the 1986 IRCA, where the left got amnesty, and the right got no enforcement. Third, the flow never stopped after 1986, and it’s become a firehose under Biden.”
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