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Dem Senator displays either a brazen agenda or shocking lack of self-awareness in STUNNING clip

February 8, 2024 | | Print Article

U.S. Senator Chris Murphy illustrated either the brazen agenda of Democrats or their stunning lack of self-awareness as he said the quiet part out loud about illegal immigrants.

The Connecticut Democrat boldly expressed his thoughts on what he called “undocumented Americans” during an interview on “All In With Chris Hayes” that had to be heard to be believed.

Murphy’s stunning admission that migrants in the country illegally are the ones his party cares about the “most” came after host Chris Hayes teed up the senator with a question about the border bill rejected by Republicans.

“This time around, the negotiation didn’t have a path to citizenship. It was entirely on their [Republicans’] terms in order to get Ukraine funding, right?” the MSNBC host asked.

“Well, I mean, Chris, that’s been a failed play for 20 years,” Murphy began his response.

“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,” he added without batting an eye.

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“This is also not 2013 any longer. When we ran that play last back then, there were a couple hundred people showing up every day applying for asylum,” the Democrat continued. “Today, on some days, there are 8,000. And the reality is, is that the bulk of this country does not think that that’s right or sustainable and wants us to change the reality at the border.”

He went on to discuss the “same play” used by Democrats and the stunning admission that the proposed border bill would have included the “biggest expansion of visas in 30 years.”

“So I know there’s a temptation for Democrats, and I know you weren’t looking for this argument, but I think there is a temptation to just run the same play we always run because we know how to run it,” he said.

“But when it hasn’t worked and when the country is actually demanding that we do something to make the border more manageable, I do think we have a right and a responsibility to adjust to that reality. Now, this bill still had in it some really important things for migrant rights, including a right to representation and earlier work permits and the biggest expansion of visas in 30 years. It’s not a pathway to citizenship, but it is something substantial for people that actually care about migrants,” Murphy contended.

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“But in the end, all of this didn’t matter because, as it turns out, Republicans are just absolutely allergic to fixing the problem at the border because they are so used to having this be their perennial election-year issue,” he said, predictably finding a way to blame Republicans.

“They just couldn’t give it up in the end. So they asked James Lankford to cut this deal. He did exactly what they asked. Mitch McConnell was in the room for the entirety of the negotiation and in the end, even Mitch McConnell voted against it. Only three others joined James Lankford on the floor today to support the bipartisan border fix bill,” he said.

Murphy’s eyebrow-raising commentary on Democrat strategy set off a wave of reactions on social media.

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