The Postelection Mandate: Reject Mass Deportation Chaos | Opinion
Newsweek · Janet Murguía, Bob Worsley ·
"Both parties are learning the exact same lesson: Latino and everyday moderate voters are guaranteed to no one."
The election results sent an unmistakable message: The immigration debate has shifted and Americans resoundingly reject the disruptions caused by mass deportations, demanding solutions that lower prices and protect communities.
We rarely agree on everything. One of us is a conservative entrepreneur and former Arizona Republican state senator; the other leads the nation’s largest Latino civil rights organization. Yet we agree that our nation’s voters, from Latinos in South Texas to suburban women in Pennsylvania, sent a loud, clear message. The cruelty of masked agents destroying the families of long-term immigrants through indiscriminate deportations is unacceptable.
It is time for both Republicans and Democrats to work together and stop the 20-year stalemate on immigration policy solutions. If the take-home message of the 2024 elections was that our voters want safe and controlled borders, then the take-home message on November 3 was that voters also demand humane, bipartisan solutions for the long-term contributing immigrants who harvest our food, build our homes and power our economy.
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