Given that Sen. Mitt Romney is the direct descendant of back-to-back generations of displaced persons, and that he has sworn an oath to support and defend the Constitution, he should vote to terminate the president’s national emergency.
In 1912, 17 years after fleeing across the United States’ southern border to Mexico, the Romney family was forced to abandon their lands once again and flee back across the border to avoid riots and violence caused by the swell of anti-foreign sentiment and racism that came with the Mexican Revolution.
Now, just over 100 years after the Romney family sought refuge by crossing Mexico’s border into the United States, Trump is responding to requests for refuge and opportunity at that very same border with dehumanization and a unilaterally declared state of emergency that would allow him to single-handedly reallocate funds towards building a wall.