During Tuesday night’s Republican National Convention programming, speakers went light on policy and heavy on horror.
At the Republican National Convention (RNC) on Tuesday night, speakers drilled the Biden administration on its handling of immigration and the border, linking current migration trends to increased crime and disorder across the country. The night’s official theme was «Make America Safe Again», but the programming was light on specific ideas about how to do that. Instead, there were a lot of individual lurid tales of migrant crime.
«Americans are dying, murdered, assaulted, raped by illegal immigrants that the Democrats have released», Sen. Ted Cruz (R–Texas) argued. Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley called the border «the single biggest threat Americans face.» House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R–La.) warned that «prisons are being emptied», suggesting that those people are now free to cross the border into the United States.
Politicians told horrific stories of migrants attacking American women and girls, while family members of people killed by illegal immigrants blamed the Biden administration and its border policy.
