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While bashing some Republicans for not getting on board with the
Senate immigration bill unveiled over the weekend, MSNBC host Al
Sharpton used the word "invasion" Monday to describe the border
crisis, which some liberals found to be highly controversial.

President Biden and politicians from both the Democratic and
Republican parties have touted the deal as a bipartisan compromise
to secure the border. However, many Republicans argue that not only
is this deal insufficient, but Biden already has the necessary
ability to take action to secure the border. One of their main
critiques is that it would include Title 42-type authority that
would only be mandated if numbers at the southern border exceeded
5,000 migrant encounters a day. Democratic California Sen. Alex
Padilla is so far the only Democratic senator to have publicly
criticized the bill. He called the deal a "new version of a failed
Trump-era immigration policy that will cause more chaos at the
border, not less."

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., went on "Morning Joe" to tout the bill
he helped negotiate and Sharpton asked him what could be done to get
voters to pressure their senators to support the bill.

Sharpton expressed urgency and channeled people "outraged" across
the country at the "influx of migrants," pointing the finger at
senators who aren't on board as the ones "allowing this to
continue."

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"What is being done to get the public to really rise up in various
states to say to their senators that they want to see the border
issue resolved?" he asked. "I mean, you’re getting migrants beating
up policemen in the streets of New York. You’re seeing an influx of
migrants all over the country that, frankly, have people outraged.
Couldn’t there be some kind of public pressure put in the next
couple of days in some of these senators’ states saying, ‘Why are
you allowing this to continue?’ Because at the end of the day,
senators have to deal with their voters."

After mentioning funding to Israel and Gaza, Sharpton went back to
the border, referring to the migrant crisis as an "invasion," a term
that sparks outrage among immigration advocates and the left.

"But the border, I mean, we’re looking every day at the invasion of
migrants, and they’re playing a time game with politics on this?"
Sharpton asked. "Couldn’t the pressure be put to bear in their home
states?"

HuffPost senior reporter Paul Blumenthal objected to the use of the
term "invasion" to describe the massive influx of people who are
coming across America’s southern border, in a Monday piece warning,
"Texas Makes Absurd Argument That Immigration Is 'Invasion.'"

"Once confined to the nativist far-right, this rhetoric of immigrant
invasion has surged into the Republican Party mainstream since
former President Donald Trump’s rise in 2016," Blumenthal wrote. He
went on to say, "This rhetoric has been deployed throughout American
history to fuel support for anti-immigration measures and most
notably in the Supreme Court’s opinion upholding the Chinese
Exclusion Act of 1882."

He went on to cite a quote from University of Baltimore School of
Law professor Matthew Lindsay who argued that such rhetoric has
"portrayed immigrants as faceless masses, who were racially
incapable of assimilating into American conceptions of liberty, and
would undermine the country’s system of free labor by taking work at exploitative wages."

https://www.foxnews.com/media/al-sharpton-calls-border-crisis- invasion-wants-gop-senators-pressured-allowing-continue

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