Hinson Opposes Biden Immigration Plan
Iowa’s First District Congresswoman Ashley Hinson called President Biden’s immigration plan “radical” on Twitter yesterday afternoon. Warning enactment, “will make our country less safe and disadvantage us economically,” she said the President’s plan, “will take us in the wrong direction.” Hinson admits the current, “immigration system is broken,” while offering no alternative plan addressing this problem.
Twitterverse condemnation was swift and universal with one person telling Hinson to, “Take your Republican talking points and sit down. Another called her tweet, “Misleading at best,” while a third pointed out, “Legislating is more than name calling.”
Hinson’s opinion, posted from her personal account, seeks to activate Trump voter nativist impulses, concerns J. Ann Selzer identified during client sponsored voter focus groups. In a December 3 interview with FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast host Galen Druke after the 2020 election, Selzer described group participants who cast ballots for Trump in 2016 but were hesitant in 2020, identifying a number of Trump initiatives they liked but were frustrated by his erratic behavior. Immigration was one of those items.
After his inauguration, President Biden outlined a path to citizenship for the estimated eleven million undocumented residents and modifications to the green card process speeding up permission to enter for family members outside the United States. The changes required congressional action. Two previous attempts in 2007 and 2013 to reform America’s immigration laws failed when lawmakers could not agree on an approach.