A moderate Democratic think tank on Thursday unveiled a new road map for how its party should handle immigration enforcement policy, including calls for a new review board to investigate potential wrongdoing under the Trump administration and a deportation policy that focuses on criminals and recent arrivals to the country.
Third Way officials say the group’s multipronged proposal is an attempt to find a politically durable approach to immigration enforcement that eschews both the hard-line efforts of Donald Trump’s administration and the more lax agenda of Joe Biden’s presidency, both of which they say were deeply unpopular with voters.
“Democrats need more than criticism of Trump’s excesses — they need a governing plan that shows they can make immigration enforcement work for the country,” according to the group’s memo, shared first with NOTUS. “The failing credibility of the federal immigration enforcement apparatus will eventually become a Democratic problem — whether the next time a Democrat takes the White House, the next time Democrats govern Congress, or both.”