Rep. Jamie Raskin said he was giving Republicans “another opportunity to take a public stand against the deliberate amplification of dangerous racist rhetoric that has had deadly consequences.”
The ranking member attached a resolution that’s already been signed by all of the committee’s Democratic members, which Raskin asked GOP committee members to now sign as well.
Raskin cited “dangerous and conspiratorial rhetoric that Republican committee members have made that “[borrow] from” the “Great Replacement” theory as making it more necessary to emphasize that the Republican lawmakers denounce those ideologies, such as describing migrants arriving at the Southern border as an “invasion” and claiming the Biden Administration was “implementing a plan ‘to deliberately open our border’ for purposes of ‘changing our culture.’”
Though Raskin did not specify the lawmakers in his letter, committee members Boebert and Greene have described the influx of migrants as an “invasion,” thenotes—along with other GOP lawmakers—while Rep. Paul Gosar made the comment about immigrants “changing our culture.
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