THOM TILLIS:
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I think what's-- --that they're coming to different conclusions about what was promised and what's actually happening? Yeah. Because I mean, if we're not careful, we could be repeating the very sort of perception-- it's not reality, but the perception of what led them to legally immigrate to the United States. I'm talking about the legally present population of Hispanics, for example. They left countries that had military presences in all of their towns. They left countries where they didn't feel like that they were fully benefiting from due process. They left those countries. So if we're not careful, even though it's not directly affecting them if they're legally present, they're going, I don't know. This feels like a country I left, the nation of my birth. I've always said, do you have any idea how profound it would be to decide that that country you grew up in, the one that you probably said their pledges to and listened to their national anthems, that it was so bad, you wanted to turn your back on it and become a citizen of another country? And so it's got to be burned in their mind what those circumstances were. And any time our behavior-- it's not literally what they fled from, but anytime our behavior mimics that, I don't know. I think that's going a little too far. It runs roughshod over due process. Right, or bypassing, a shortcut. Anytime you start rationalizing taking shortcuts to due process, to freedom of speech, to freedom of expression, then it gets people who have lived under oppression, I think it gets them nervous, and rightfully so. How about gimmicky names for detention centers like Alligator Alcatraz and Deport-- I-- --Depot? And-- I think it's goofy. I just don't buy-- I never advise-- I advise businesses. I never advise them on goofy little slogans and stuff. It may seem cute in the moment. But if all of a sudden, you've got somebody in Alligator Alcatraz or whatever other garbage they're calling these facilities, it starts affecting families. And people joking it off, I think what they're doing, they may be fine if they're in a confirmed position in the White House. But if you're running in a tough district, you should be looking at that rhetoric and see how it's going to help you get reelected as a Republican.
