Three weeks from now is the real fight - on immigration. Tell people: Hardworking immigrants.

[sharedvalues]

Here's some things to say to your friends and family -- heck, everyone you meet! -- to do good messaging and boost Senate Dems over the next three weeks.

- Dreamers are hardworking immigrants.

- Immigrants ARE America and America is immigrants. America is a melting pot. "Bring me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." The story of America is the story of immigration.

- Immigrants come here to live the American dream - just as our ancestors did.

- Immigration helps our economy. Founders of Google were immigrants. The founder of Intel was a poor immigrant who came here with barely the shirt on his back. Albert Einstein was an immigrant to the US. Our hardworking immigrants make this economy great.

- The GOP is demonizing immigrants now just as many of our ancestors - from places Italy and Ireland - were demonized a century ago. Immigrants are what America is about and we should welcome them.


[If the right-winger responds: "But those were legal immigrants":]

A century ago we had NO restrictions on immigration and in reaction to Italian and Irish immigrants xenophobic politicians passed laws restricting them. If today's GOP was in power in 1900, they would certainly be demonizing and restricting and criminalizing Irish and Italian immigrants. That's not what America stands for.

[msongs]

1. one suspects most people have no clue what DACA means. your suggestion is good framing nt

[sharedvalues]

6. Good framing is what we should all strive for

I constantly try to improve my framing by listening to others' framing, and listening to how others react. Thanks!

[JI7]

2. the reason Trump Supporters don't like these Dreamers is BECAUSE they do well

they don't want to have to compete with brown people and it makes them angry to see them going to college and getting degrees and a job when their family is still waiting for coal jobs.

[Kirk Lover]

3. And I remind them that if they are not happy with their lot in life or that they are not

as successful as they'd like to be then they have one person to blame at that is themselves. Stop blaming others for your shortcomings.

[sharedvalues]

5. Well, the Koches and Waltons and other GOP billionaires do make their lives harder

Being middle class was easier 40 years ago when wages were higher and jobs were more stable.

One of the biggest differences between now and then is that billionaires became politically active (mainly in the GOP) and used their political power to amass more wealth. So the average middle class job today is a lot worse than it should be based on how much the economy has grown.

So it's partially the fault of GOP billionaire donors that their lives are hard. But that's no excuse for not working hard themselves, of course. Work hard, and vote Dem.

[sharedvalues]

4. Well you can also add this one: if not happy, GOP billionaires should be their targets

"And the people that are holding down the middle class in America are GOP donor billionaires. Look at Wal-mart -- hundreds of thousands of jobs are less than 40 hours per week so the Walton family doesn't need to provide benefits. Who gets all the profits? The CEO and his family. If you and me are upset at the kind of jobs out there for average Americans, we should be upset at the CEOs and billionaires who hold wages down, and who spend money on GOP politics to help corporations and take heathcare away from average people".

[Rhiannon12866]

7. And every president from Reagan on - both parties - supported DACA

Plus, we all come from immigrants. Who doesn't? I know I do, grandparents from Poland, great grandparents from Ireland - both sides of my family.


Watch Reagan, Bush And Bush Demolish Trump On DACA - The Beat With Ari Melber - MSNBC
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017476677

[thbobby]

8. xenophobia and hatred

is easy to campaign on. It is the GOP's only hope of attracting voters. They support the rich and prey on haters, bigots, and low information voters. America is looking more and more like Weimar Germany.

[beachbum bob]

9. actually the fight is now and the battle for a shutdown is in 3 weeks

whats the odds that McConnel passes on all this? He knows the republican majority in the house fueled by the batshit crazies will support NO DACA period and NO immigration bill whatsoever that isn't harsher than what we got now. The only choice Ryan has is to work with Pelosi and hope 40-50 republicans in the house who want DACA renewed and codified as immigration laws reformed join them....all out civil war in GOP if and when this happens but Nov is approaching and we all know what happens if republicans don't work this out with democrats