Why do Republicans care about the border? It is a simple question with a simple answer: it is a mess. But for MSNBC’s Ali Velshi, who had guest hosting duties for Wednesday’s Alex Wagner Tonight, it is because “they want to let fewer brown people in” and any measures to address the issue prove that “the cruelty is the point.”
Velshi began the show by discussing dueling op-eds from Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis in the Des Moines Register where they sought to convince voters that they would be the best candidate on the issue, “Now, what both Trump and DeSantis are advancing in these op-eds are neither actually fixes to our country’s border issues nor are they actually immigration policies. But they are the sort of plans you can tell people that you have, and they are articulating them to the public.”
Those plans, according…
