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New York Times reporter Jazmine Ulloa, who has deputized herself as the Republican language police on the immigration issue, transformed wholly reasonable conservative concerns raised about voting integrity among Ohioans into “one of the most pernicious far-right conspiracy theories” in Sunday’s “In JD Vance’s Backyard, Conspiracy Theories About Migrants and Voting Abound.”
The nasty story also served as a guilt-by-association partisan attack on Sen. Vance of Ohio, who has proved himself so far to be an effective vice presidential political attack dog for the Republican ticket.
Paul C. Pauley views himself as a middle-of-the-road Republican -- who also just happens to believe in one of the most pernicious far-right conspiracy theories about illegal border crossings: that Democrats are bringing undocumented immigrants into the country to vote for their party.
“I don’t think they’re going to get that vote this year,” said Mr. Pauley, who sells evergreens on a family farm near Warren, Ohio. “But four years from now? Eight years from now?”
The idea of a mass of illegals crossing the border now, then voting for Harris in November, may indeed sound a little far-fetched -- but it’s common sense to think an illegal immigrant could become a naturalized citizen and be eligible to vote in a presidential election, yes, "four or eight" years from now, and to vote for the party who bestowed that citizenship.
Ulloa fiercely defended the political innocence of the Democrats, as if it such a bluntly partisan motivation was the furthest thing from their minds.
….It also strains even the imagination, envisioning Democrats in Washington circumventing border rules, officials and infrastructure to allow undocumented immigrants into the country, help them settle and then cast ballots, legally or not.
Politico certainly took the idea seriously in a 2013 article, “Immigration reform could be bonanza for Democrats,” which opened:
The immigration proposal pending [in 2013] in Congress would transform the nation’s political landscape for a generation or more -- pumping as many as 11 million new Hispanic voters into the electorate a decade from now in ways that, if current trends hold, would produce an electoral bonanza for Democrats and cripple Republican prospects in many states they now win easily.
Is Politico part of the vast right-wing conspiracy?
She was obliged to note:
More than a dozen cities and towns, mostly in deep-blue areas, allow foreign nationals to vote in local elections regardless of their immigration status, which state and local leaders say is warranted because unauthorized immigrants pay taxes at levels comparable to those of citizens and strengthen their economies….
That hasn’t stopped Mr. Trump and Mr. Vance from emphasizing the claim in media appearances and campaign events, fueling a conspiracy theory that is central to Mr. Trump’s lie that the last election was stolen from him. They use it to pummel the Biden administration’s border policies and cast Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, as a failed “border czar,” misconstruing the role she played.
Harris was in fact the “border czar” under Biden according to mainstream media reports, until the moment it became politically inconvenient.
Besides disgracefully tying Vance's stump rhetoric to racist shootings, Ulloa used the up-to-the-minute Times-approved euphemism for illegals:
Mr. Vance has made the conspiracy claim a staple of his stump speech, and in interviews has gone so far as to suggest that Democrats believe they can altogether “replace” native-born Americans, language that has been used by perpetrators of several mass shootings. At recent rallies in Arizona and Nevada, he said Ms. Harris would give every undocumented immigrant the right to vote and “destroy” Americans’ say in their own country….
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A road trip through Mr. Vance’s backyard in a stretch of northern Ohio offers a glimpse into how their claims about immigrant voting, long amplified by the right-wing media and Trump allies, have taken hold with a swath of voters. Even as Republicans have sought to downplay some of the most extreme voices propagating 2020 election denialism, distrust in the election system has festered.
She acknowledged the fact that illegal migrant crossings had “skyrocketed” during the Biden years, but blew right by it to again attack the Republican “conspiracy theory.”
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