Fake campaign signs for democratic candidate demand open borders, abolishing ICE - Polidicks

Phony campaign signs for Democrat Abigail Spanberger designed to.. RICHMOND — Phony political signs suggesting that Democrat Abigail Spanberger is running for Congress on promises to impeach President Trump and open the nation’s borders popped up in the Richmond suburbs over the weekend. The red-white-and-blue placards bore Spanberger’s name and a variety of slogans, including “Impeach Trump,” “Open borders” and “Abolish ICE.” Campaign staff for Spanberger, who is trying to unseat Rep. Dave Brat (R-Va.), spotted them Sunday morning in Chesterfield County and quickly pulled them down. Spanberger, a former CIA officer who has positioned herself as a moderate as she runs in the swing district, has said she opposes open borders and the abolishment of the federal agency known as ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement. As for Trump, she has said that he deserves due process and that she wants to see special counsel Robert S. Mueller III complete his investigation into whether the president’s campaign colluded with Russians who interfered in the 2016 election. “These signs are nothing but a desperate smear tactic due to the strength of our campaign and how we are resonating with voters across the 7th District,” Spanberger spokesman Justin Jones said. This is the same race where the republicans submitted a FOIA and got her unredacted personnel records with the USPS. Dave Brat is playing dirty

They're going to use every trick in the book leading up to these midterms, because they know just as well as we do that whoever wins will completely shut down the other side and will likely decide whether Trump gets to remain in office or not. They lose here, they lose every inch they've gained in the past few years and we finally get the opportunity to scrub them out and set up precautions to prevent this from happening again. They win here, their chokehold over the government becomes permanent.

538 gives Brat a 2/3 chance to win, 7/8 with just polls. Why are they so shitty about this one district?

2/3 is a smaller chance than clinton had to win the presidency

This should actually be illegal, like bigtime jailtime illegal if it isn't already.

Unlikely they'll catch anyone, they're probably just driving around planting them in the middle of the night. Welcome to a brave new world of misinformation.

Gotta love the hypocrisy. Calls everything fake news. Then sends out fake news to try and get people to vote Republican.

Hypocritical false flag fake news. Hmm

If only the dems were actually that good.

Republicans benefit from immigration the most because it gives them something to make their main voters fear Without immigration that's a huge thing off their list to panic about. Which is why they actively commit to non-solutions that don't actually fix the problem

Open borders is a retarded policy that appeals to anarchists and socialists who do not understand economics.

Open borders? No. The abolishment of ICE? Absolutely.

what in the fuck is happening, the gop are just fucking monsters this election.

They're scared that they'll lose the majority without Obama to point fingers at. Also that they'll get expelled from the House and/or imprisoned after Dem lead ethics committee investigations,

Having regulated borders should be a thing in this given day and age. Its understandable to have decent security. But when it gets to retarded levels of bullshit like Trump's administration what of doing it, and also ICE's aggressive tactics of deporting illegal immigrants and even harassing law-abiding immigrants and citizens, then its fucking stupid.

Abolishing ICE would be a symbolic waste of time, someone still has to do their job.

idk, things were just fine before 2003

They're now attacking her as being pro-saudi and anti-woman because she taught at a muslim private school funded partially by the saudis: GOP uses Saudi treatment of women, gays against Democrat who tau..

can we drive around posting signs for a GOP candidate that say hitler did nothing wrong? actually nvm that would probably just increase his votes

"I support abortion" -Ted Cruz 2018

Yeah those services still existed before 2003, they were just scattered all throughout the government. The Department of Homeland Security didn't introduce anything new, it just consolidated it.

I'm glad to see the GOP stand against against the oppression of the Saudi regime. I'm sure that this is a genuine criticism and not at all a disgustingly craven and hypocritical political grandstanding

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Turns out you kinda need border security, especial if you're right next to a country where hyperviolent drug cartels hold a fucking scary amount of power. While ICE is in dire need of reform, abolishing it would be a waste of time and money followed by ANOTHER waste of time and money when you realize you need a similar (if toned down) agency to take their place. Not to mention calling for its abolition gives even more opportunities to the far right to paint you as an open borders enthusiast, a communist, and what have you. "Man-love is A-OK" -Mike Pence 2020

"I firmly believe in the rule of law and will place the integrity of our democratic institutions above petty political tribalism"

Yes and they worked fine without being a bloated department with overeaching power.

you can abolish ICE and still have CBP. The idea is to delegate ICE's deportation responsibilities to other LEOs, so that if, say, local police arrest a drug dealer, or the FBI arrests an arms trafficker and find that he's not in the country legally, they can (at their discretion) hand him over to CBP to have him deported, so that way we're not wasting government resources hunting down Juanita at her job cleaning peoples' houses to try to put her children through college

Closed borders are why people starve and really is the root of all evil in my world view. They say that concentrations of low-income people of the same ethnic group is an aggregate for crime, but all that needs to be done to avoid that is ending the drug war and poof, all that crime goes away. I really like Gary Johnson's view that the politically correct term for illegal immigrants is undocumented workers. I took econ101 and the professor says higher populations allow for a greater degree for specialization, and the occupation of low income jobs allows for the population to move on to "bigger and better" things. It's also worth pointing out that unemployment is the lowest it's been since the post-world war 2 boom. It's worth pointing out that there is currently a massive shortage of construction workers.

Fuck 'em. If we consider what the far right thinks about whatever political policy we believe in, nothing will ever change.

It's not what they will think, it's how easily they can twist your words, fuck up your message and reputation, and steal on-the-fence voters away from you. That's the sort of stuff a politician should VERY MUCH care about. A false step in politics may as well be a swan dive in a vat of piranhas.