Cable news should keep booking as many freshman Democrats as possible. It seems they’re the only ones capable of telling the truth about their party’s intention on immigration.
In an interview Monday on CNN, freshman Rep. Katie Hill, D-Calif., admitted that she’s in favor of building some new southern border wall barrier, but that her Democrat colleagues in Congress are refusing to offer any funding for it because it would force them to go back on their repeated claim that the wall is racist.
Asked by anchor John Berman what she would say to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who has rebuffed any negotiation with President Trump for a border barrier, Hill said what everyone needs to understand: The debate over a wall barrier has boiled down to nothing more than a time-wasting semantics issue.
“Well, first of all, I don’t think [Trump] said some kind of new barrier. I think he said ‘the wall,’” she said. “And I think that’s a really important distinction because, again, the connotation around the wall has so much to do with the hateful rhetoric that he’s been spewing for at this point years.”
This was, in essence, a confession that the wall has become an issue of principle, not practicality, for Democrats. There’s nothing objectionable about border barriers, but walls … Well, Democrats can’t bring themselves to back down on a wall because they have associated it with “rhetoric” that they claim is hateful and based in racism.
