Comment by abeppu

Comment by abeppu 2 days ago

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Working to accomplish what goal for whom?

I think largely they have not yet been effective at protecting immigrants.

> They’re as much about spreading awareness and mobilizing the voting public as they are about current events.

Right, so to some degree they "work" as tools for existing political groups in attracting attention, resources and possibly votes. But does it better enable those groups to actually help immigrants? Or does it just give political organizations a powerful talking point in the midterms?

pjc50 2 days ago

The latter is probably the strongest route to actually doing something, because there's no accountability within the system until both Senate and House have flipped D.