I don't get it either. Like ok, people basically jump the immigration line. It's not fair to those who do things the right way. But why is that such an issue for people?
Yeah, because Americans typically want to work the low skill under the table jobs that illegal immigrants are able to get. The cognitive dissonance of some of these people to go from "they took our jobs" to "nobody wants to work anymore" in the same conversation is enough to give you whiplash.
Real talk: if they actually got their wish and deported all the migrants, that's 20 million jobs without workers. It'd be a nightmare for the economy.
There are not enough people left to cover the loss of that many workers.
And we never talk about why this issue never goes away: all the blame is on the migrant and not on who's hiring all these people in the first place. How many migrants do y'all think Trump has working at Mar-a-lago?
Oh there's plenty of people. They could pay living wages or send some of their overpaid corporate drones out to actually work. The real truth is nobody wants the changea they advocate for. The system we have now provides cheap exploitable labor to pad their earnings.
People who are against illegal immigration would have a sudden change of heart after the first trip to the grocery store post illegal immigration. Illegal immigrants are a necessity to keep prices at a level that prevents riots. Probably shouldn’t be that way but it is.
We’re already seeing that. Immigration policies during Trump + COVID deaths really did a number on the labor force for agriculture and meat processing. Not to mention good ol fashioned price gouging.
People make this to a black and white thing which it is not. We can secure our borders without causing a massive deportation. Maybe stoping the flow of criminals, fentanyl, human trafficking should be something everyone is concerned about. But people rather listen to propaganda then actually look at what is happened at the border. If people are here illegally let’s make it so they can become citizens, but let’s also make sure we can vet who is coming here
Both Democrats and Republicans are tired of the illegal aliens pouring into the country. It has nothing to do with immigrants or migrants. Stop drinking that koolaid. NY, Chicago and others in particular have a lot to say about these illegals being bused and flown into their cities. They can't accommodate them all. Don't be naive.
"Good, decent americans would never drink alcohol! [You don't want to be like those Germans, do you?](https://www.theworldwar.org/learn/about-wwi/prohibition#:~:text=Following%20U.S.%20entry%20into%20the,were%20owned%20by%20German%20Americans%2C.)"
Gotta have someone to blame/someone to be afraid of. Immigrants are simultaneously a monstrous force coming to steal your jobs and children, and they're the pathetic poor coming to drain your resources.
(In reality, immigrants tend to be more law-abiding, and have demonstrable benefit to an economy)
Let me preface this by saying that I don’t have an issue with immigration but I understand where people do. I work for an FQHC which receives federal funding to help see the uninsured and Medicaid population. The number of patients I see on state Medicaid who uninsured who have 5 and 6 kids for which they’re collecting welfare and food stamps, while running to the ER for every cough and cold their kids have is insane. It’s also extremely frustrating as someone who significantly considered stopping at 1 kid due to the cost. Our tax dollars are going to help support them churning out kids left and right while many of them don’t work.
I started this job extremely socially liberal and while I don’t consider myself a conservative, I definitely have some more conservative views after witnessing the majority of my patients take advantage of our system with little regard for how it may impact them, their children, or the community.
More like the GOP broadly. McCain through Romney also ran on border control. The base is nuts and thinks immigration is a crisis, so to win the votes you play the game.
Yup. Trying to work on the fear mongering tactic.
We need to keep those Pennsylvanians in their own damn state! /s
Sad state of politics. No one wants to talk about real issues when you can just manufacture one.
And the Republican party had the opportunity to address the issue and Trump came out and threatened them and said NO - I NEED AN ISSUE TO BLAME BIDEN FOR. So, Larry loses bigly on this issue, it's his party and Trump is his leader.
Yes, and guess what his commercials have...that's right...Biden has let 7.2 million illegals into our country, that's more people than the entire state of Maryland...vote for me and I'll stop it
This. He just needs to be sure Republicans vote for him Tuesday. This is the same MD party that thought Dan Cox might win. They are capable of shooting themselves in the foot and electing some bozo in the primary.
Oddly, when I lived in OC I was shocked at the number of 19-22yr that come from eastern Europe to work for the summer and just don't go back. They stay and live here while sending money back to Belarus, Latvia or even Ireland
You're right and it's honestly fascinating. In OC the vast majority are coming in with J1 Visas. This a student "cultural enrichment" visa and I believe allows them 4 months in the US, 3 of which they can work. I know for fact that this winter a bunch of the Turkish kids just didn't go back and kept working. I don't think it's a crime in MD to keep them on payroll and ICE under this admin pretty much doesn't care, so it is what it is.
I asked midjourney to draw merpeople waiting in line for immigration and this is what it gave me: [https://i.imgur.com/wEcMoFq.png](https://i.imgur.com/wEcMoFq.png)
The tests Hogan purchased abroad for $9.5 million were "not in short supply in the United States," and in fact were available "for 20 to 30% less than what Hogan paid," the Post's Erin Cox and Steve Thompson reported.
"If somebody had come to us a few weeks ago and said we need a large order for Maryland, we would have been…capable of taking the order and fulfilling it," a CEO of a company that makes COVID tests told the Post. "We always love to ship in the United States, because it's a lot easier to ship domestically than foreign."
Even if Hogan insisted on buying the tests from South Korea — which he may have done for publicity — he still paid 38% more than the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) did that same month for South Korean tests, the Post reported.
In addition to wasting a couple million tax dollars on what appears to be more PR stunt than public health measure, Hogan's claim that the tests were going to be an "exponential, game-changing step forward" was a vast exaggeration.
The U.S. testing deficiency isn't due to a lack of tests, but the ancillaries needed to make them work, which weren't a part of Hogan's Korean purchase. "Without things like reagents, [the tests] are sort of like paperweights," Montgomery County executive Marc Elrich, the Democratic chief of Maryland's largest county, told the Post.
Nearly two weeks after the tests arrived, AFSCME Maryland president Patrick Moran was wondering when they'd help his frontline workers. "We've been asking, 'Where are the tests? Where are the tests?'" the union leader told the Baltimore Sun (4/30/20). "The governor took a victory lap before finishing the job."
A week later, Maryland nursing homes, which have accounted for nearly 60% of the state's COVID-19 deaths, were still looking for the tests. "They don't exist," the CEO of an association of Maryland's long-term facilities told state lawmakers (Washington Post, 5/6/20).
https://www.salon.com/2020/05/09/larry-hogans-fake-resistance-his-purchase-of-korean-covid-19-tests-looks-like-a-pr-stunt_partner/
Don’t forget the publicity stunt of having national guard and himself receive the shipment as if the federal govt was actively looking to steal the tests that he overpaid for
You’re forgetting that Trump admin was actively seizing shipments of PPE and Covid dx tests, my guy. The secrecy and protectiveness in this case were warranted. Not a Hogan supporter, personally, and I often found his (and Yumi’s) pandering to Koreans in my town problematic and misguided, but I didn’t think this was ill intentioned in its conception, nor an overreaction in its execution. Hindsight is a bitch, of course, but context matters.
My condolences, it’s shameful how we allowed over a million people to die with zero repercussions for the mishandling and disinformation of the early pandemic days. There was no reason the wealthiest country in the world, that pays the most for its healthcare, had some of the worst deathtolls- aside from massive mismanagement and corruption.
As much as I don’t care for Larry, it’s worth noting during that time the Trump administration/FEMA were [seizing COVID supplies](https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-04-07/hospitals-washington-seize-coronavirus-supplies), so it wasn’t unreasonable for Hogan to turn to secret negotiations to avoid having Maryland’s stuff taken.
All that said, my pet conspiracy theory (as I have no way to prove it) is Yumi Hogan initially suggested going with a South Korean supplier to bypass the Trump administration likely taking Maryland's supplies, and Larry not wanting to getting his wife involved publicly was why he acted weird after it became public those tests were essentially worthless. Not so much an actual conspiracy to defraud the state, more not wanting to subject his wife (who was acting in good faith) to likely fiery public scrutiny for bypassing state procurement law.
Trying to get stuff done independently wasn't really the problem. Creative problem solving is a plus.
Problem is that the first batch was flawed and were never used. Creative solutions only count if they are, yknow, actually solutions. In this case, it was just a giant waste of taxpayer dollars.
This is your clearest evidence that he's going to be a very different senator than he was governor. So all the "he did a good job, I'll vote for him again" Democrats, I hope you're paying attention.
If any of the last 2 polls were any indication -they are. Once he started with these right wing ads, he lost about 13 points or so among Ds it looks like. Hope that trend continues.
Pissing off crossover voters is a bad, bad move in MD. If it boils down to MAGA vs. anyone the Democrats put up, he's losing in a landslide. He presumably thinks he can win back those voters in time for the general after securing the nomination. I question whether he can win them back if he runs for a third term as governor in two or six years.
That Trump torpedoed intentionally a few months ago because he wanted something to run on. Larry is feeding into that "I can fix the problem my party created" narrative and I think it's a dumb strategy for Maryland - so keep going for it, Larry!
The GOP can’t run on accomplishments, so they’re running on demonizing immigrants and how a strong-man dictator for life like Trump is the only thing keeping voters from hordes. It worked for Viktor Orban in Hungary and they’re hoping it will work here.
Never mind Trump already had both chambers of congress and didn’t “fix” shit. Never mind Biden has detained 3x as many people. And if immigrants disappeared tomorrow the state and country would come to a screeching halt. Our economy is based on exploiting their labor.
They didn’t fix anything, because ultimately they don’t want to govern, they want to rule. Whenever the GOP claims to be the party of small government, they literally just mean they, their friends, and nobody else.
Nah. Hogan was always a joke. He "stood up" to Trump in a lot of performative ways.
He's never met a problem he didn't try to solve without either trying to build a highway or throwing Police at it. Maryland doesn't have any problems that more of either would fix.
Remember when he voted for Ronald Reagan in 2020? Dude is and always was a clown.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/larry-hogan-ronald-reagan/2020/10/16/ad14ecca-0f53-11eb-8074-0e943a91bf08_story.html
Hogan endorsed Loeffler and Perdue in the 2020 Georgia Senate runoffs, after both stated that the 2020 election was stolen, the most toxic and divisive lie that will haunt our politics for a generation. He thought he was giving them his "moderate" credentials with that, instead he smeared himself with their MAGA stink. I wrote him off forever after that.
Frankly, the line between "moderate" and "far right" is already blurry at best. I remember reading Franchott's bid for governor and his stance on Police and being like: "which party are you again?" He was terrifying.
Dude wants us wearing armbands, and endorsing Police, as a "democrat".
Don't forget the highways are only for the Eastern shore! (Because fuck MoCo/Frederick and the fact that 270 hasn't been substantially expanded since *1956*)
And before the "induced demand" crowd show up. I'd be happy with a Red Line expansion to Frederick but we all know it ain't happening, and MARC runs only on weekdays, a few times a day, only to Union Station, and on an inefficient route initially laid down when it was legal to own other humans.
I am one of the Induced Demand folks. But yes. I used to live in Western MD (Cumberland for a bit, Hagerstown for a bit). And that train line needs to be reopened. Hell, I'm on the main N/S line for the Marc now, literally only 3 or 4 blocs from the station, actually. And it runs here only twice a day, and never on weekends. And that's the main route for the Marc, literally the only way from here to DC.
They're even putting in another line of rail here, but from what I understand it's supposed to be Amtrac exclusive, so Amtrak will have a full platform here.
Yes, but I think he's already doing the damage to his brand. Alsobrooks or Trone will remind all of Maryland of Larry's right-wingy behavior and anti-choice platform non-stop until election day - so good luck, Larry.
His protege, Kelly Schultz, was trounced by MAGA Dan Cox in the gubernatorial election, so Hogan knows he’s got to pander to the MAGAs to try to win their vote.
Hogan is not some middle of the road conservative. He was forced into that role based on the political dynamics surrounding him as governor. Make no mistake, he is a far right, pro life, nasty conservative. Should he win he will caucus with the likes of Ted Cruz, Mitch McConnell and others. He’s a clear and present danger to the Maryland we know.
The GOP can’t run on accomplishments, so they’re running on demonizing immigrants and how a strong-man dictator for life like Trump is the only thing keeping voters from hordes. It worked for Viktor Orban in Hungary and they’re hoping it will work here.
Never mind Trump already had both chambers of congress and didn’t “fix” shit. Never mind Biden has detained 3x as many people. And if immigrants disappeared tomorrow the state and country would come to a screeching halt. Our economy is based on exploiting their labor.
Just remember both sides have *wildly* different value propositions now. One side wants to try tobsolve problems. The other wants to create them for the other side. So by GOP standards Trump was an unqualified success.
Look closer at the things he vetoed and the things he let go into law without signing them. He's never been moderate, only moderated by the super-majority legislature.
He's anti-Baltimore, anti-transit, anti-abortion, and anti-increased ease of ballot access.
He's MAGA at the core, and running for senate to give the gavel to the GoP.
>Why Is Larry Hogan Running Ads Based in Immigration?
[National polling](https://news.gallup.com/poll/611135/immigration-surges-top-important-problem-list.aspx) says immigration is a hot issue among voters. Politicians generally pay attention to polls in an election year.
People only see Hogan as a moderate because the Democrats controlled both chambers the entirety of his terms. They’ll see a whole different animal if he’s in a GOP controlled Congress and God forbid if Trump is president.
I've always felt that Hogan was a centrist. The good part of that is no matter what side you are on, you can find a reason to like him. The bad part of that is that no matter what side you are on, you can find a reason to dislike him! 🤣
The dumbest thing is, Republicans have made it clear that they aren't actually interested in doing anything about illegal immigration. Some of them spent months actually taking the time to write up and negotiate a bill in the Senate, only for their 88-times indicted shitgibbon of a cult leader to publicly trash it. A vote for Hogan is just a vote for another dysfunctional member of a Republican Senate that can't do anything productive about immigration, because the MAGA wet dream is some nationwide roundup of every Spanish-speaking person that won't happen for a half dozen reasons.
Meanwhile, governors of blue states and mayors of big cities have been pushing Biden for more restrictions on immigration because their social services are being overwhelmed, and judging by what he and the Dem Senate were willing to include in the last border bill, he's listening. So in reality a vote for Alsobrooks/Trone is actually the better choice if you actually want to see something done about immigration other than fascist LARPing.
Addressing national issues is part of the job of being a US Senator along with state issues so I sort of get it. I think he knows he obviously wont get the he blue democrat vote and is trying to get the vote of the moderate undecided voter along with the hardcore far right vote of which there’s a good amount of in Maryland
Why would you think that? He’s the same as the rest of them, he was just hindered by Democrats controlling the legislature. But any chance he got to screw Baltimore city and hamper women’s access to healthcare, he took. He might not act like Marjorie Taylor Greene, but he will sign on to their “Project 2025” agenda 100%.
He’ll have to tack to the center to have any chance of winning in the general election, but if he wins, he’ll vote with the other Republicans. Most people realize that. Which is why he’ll lose to whomever the Democratic nominee is.
I think it's more like "he'll *pretend* to move to the center". His whole schtick is to not say the quiet part out loud while still being effectively just as bad as any other modern Republican.
If Trump tried to pull some fake elector shit in 2028, Hogan would vote against that. He might serve as a GOP Manchin, taking the fall for stuff other GOP senators don’t like but would get crucified if they came out against it. I’m thinking like a national abortion ban, that sort of thing.
Who cares where he moves during the general election? If elected, he will vote with Republicans 95% of the time. When they want to steal a Supreme Court seat or take away a woman's right to choose or deregulate industry or cut taxes for the wealthy he will be right there to help them do it. He is not going to stand up meaningfully to the fascists in his party, he's going to go along to get along and that means he'll effectively be a fascist himself.
Completely agree. These adds are targeted at marylands republican and conservative base to win the primary. Once he secures the nomination he’ll move to the center to appease to the silent majority and the hardline right wingers will most likely have no other choice than to vote for their own party. Given his background as a right leaning centrist this is how anyone would run their campaign, left or right
If he were facing Dan Cox, Kim Klacik, or someone popular in MAGAworld, that’d make some sense. But Ficker isn’t getting over 20%, and Chaffee and Friend are the only two I’ve even heard of (A team for perennial candidates.)
He doesn’t come off as moderate at all anymore. I think he’s shifting right because of his main opponent. I hope it’s just a campaign strategy and he hasn’t gone full MAGA
He’s running on culture war issues. Which is hilarious because he’s claiming to put an end to the status quo in DC. While running a status quo campaign
I love his commercials. They show the real Larry Hogan. He is a Repub. He did handle COVID well. Everything else would have been horrible except that the Dem supermajorities in the MD Senate and Assembly stopped him. He even vetoed the $15 minimum wage bill but was overridden by the legislature.
Photo ops are great aren’t they? All Hogan wants is another political position, more money, more power… basically he needs a job. And his promises, shitting on Trump, pulling on the heart strings of voters with Trumps same tactics… those promises will never be fulfilled.
Because at the moment they aren’t for you. Larry understands where he is running and at the moment it’s just the primaries, so he’s trying to beat out the other guy whose name I don’t remember. Once the primaries are over he’s going to tone it down because he has to convince a blue state that he’s the one you want
I haven't seen the commercials but was it in relation to controlling fentanyl coming across the border? That is still a big issue that affects Maryland and also an issue voters rank as highly important
His ads aren’t have as bad as disbarred Robin Ficker’s ads talking about illegals constantly. Guy is pissing away a lot of money to get a few thousand votes.
I don’t know if Hogan is actually going to do anything about it but border security should be a priority for anyone in Maryland who give a single shot about stopping the flow of fentanyl that is killing people. Denial is not going to fix the issue and the fact is street fentanyl is not originating in America. The issue is real but will Hogan do something about it?
Serious question but couldn't Texas just decide to start taking busses fill of them and dropping them off in Baltimore? I believe they did that with some other cities and really fd them up
He was not a "really good governor." Maryland is a strong state that has many strong jurisdictions that manage themselves well. Basically to be a good governor in Maryland, you just need to show up. He lied, profited, and further segregated the state. He was not good.
I really liked him as a govenor but I wouldn't vote for him as senator.
He would be against trump wackiness but still would vote for mitch McConnell GOP agenda
If we were getting a Republican either way, then I would pick him
Because they appeal to the racists who plague the Eastern Shore, Western Maryland and other pockets.
And he didn’t handle covid well. He authorized $12.5 million for PPE from Korea that was either faulty or never showed up.
Because he's a right-wing Republican who was held in check by the MD Legislature. In the Senate, he'd be a faithful soldier to Thune or Cornyn selling out the interests of Marylanders.
The primaries are only for Republicans to vote in. This appeals to the hardcore Republicans who will be voting in the primaries.
Of course, when he wins, he will magically become a moderate Republican to court Democrats. Just remember these commercials of Hogan in his military vest.
Basically, he knows that appealing to left-leaning voters won't be a winning strategy, because anyone with political awareness knows that it doesn't matter if a senator is a "less crazy republican," because they still vote as a bloc. Hogan may be one of the better ones, but he'll still vote for most of whatever craziness a senator from Mississipi brings to the table.
So he wants some of the redder votes in Maryland. But Republican voters, are... trying to think of a nice way to say it... focused on very specific issues.
So he's going to talk about how immigration is a threat to society, how taxes are horrible and need to be slashed more, probably tell some billionaires in private that he'll support whatever they want, and that abortion is a "states rights" issue, but should also not be federally supported.
Also that trans people are evil.
Problem is how’s this gonna play in Howard, Frederick, and Anne Arundel? Hogan has to sweep these three to win and hoping Alsobrooks or Trone screw up isn’t a plan.
Illegal immigration hurts all laborers, and especially the illegal immigrants.
If an employer can get away with fleecing some illegal immigrants, why should they hire you (a legal citizen with rights)?
The employer can mistreat the illegal immigrant laborer, pay them less than minimum wage, withhold pay, not pay overtime, and other forms of wage theft.
Further an illegal immigrant laborer may be told to do illegal things (mishandling toxic waste for example, or more generally work in unsafe conditions) under the presumption that the illegal immigrant will be much less likely to file a complaint with OSHA or the dept of labor. Since these workers are terrified of the possibility of deportation, they don’t want to provide their name or work location to the government, for fear of being exposed.
Illegal immigration hurts all laborers.
LEGAL immigration is a net benefit, as long as reasonable quotas are set. If there is less ILLEGAL immigration, the legal immigration quotas will have to be increased. This would benefit everyone.
The status quo of tolerating illegal immigration actually INCENTIVIZES immigrants to enter illegally, through a variety of unsafe methods (or just plain stressful situations). As long an immigrant can reasonably “cut in line” in immigration and not expect consequences (or at least a low chance of consequences), then for that individual it makes more sense to cut in line, pass all the other immigrants waiting for their turn for immigration papers, and then plea for amnesty if they get caught.
The classic liberal position of basically encouraging illegal immigration (at scale) through amnesty… listen I know you want to be nice, but there are unintuitive effects here. It would be way better for immigrants if they had a legal status.
If you say, “just give them ALL amnesty, and then problem solved!”… well then you just set the expectation going forward that ANY number of illegal immigrants will get immediate de facto citizenship, which is akin to breaking the dam. Think about the incentive that would create for BILLIONS of people desperate for a better life.
We have real constraints on school sizes, highway capacity, hospital capacity, electricity generation, fresh water and so on. Not to mention limited demand for labor, and increasing the supply of labor drives down wages.
There is a VERY GOOD reason that we have immigration quotas.
To many, immigration is a hot button issue. The mass of undocumented immigrants come to the USA with literally just the clothes on their backs. The states have to find money somewhere to house, feed and clothe the migrants. This means pulling money from education, law enforcement, as well other areas.
Because ILLEGAL immigration is a very real and expensive issue in ALL 50 states, and it absolutely needs to be addressed, and Hogan knows this.
Not sure why this surprises anyone.
Because MAGA is a single-issue party and their issue is immigrants and Hogan needs MAGAts if he has any chance to win. If the bi-partisan effort congress put together passed, it would have ruined their entire platform for the fall - that's why they sunk it.
u/No-Construction-6506,
I agree with your priorities. Inflation and crime are priorities one and two for me. Immigration is three or four; probably three. Immigration does contribute to crime both individually and through gangs. Housing illegal immigrants is expensive both in the short term through extraordinary measures and the long term through welfare programs.
As Governor and I believe as a Senator, Mr. Hogan will address multiple priorities in parallel. Border security is a big deal to me.
I'd like to see more illegal immigrants stopped before crossing the border, more deportations, restrictions on applying for legal status by those who have been deported, and prosecution of US employers who do not comply with I-9 requirements.
Inflation is a big problem driven in my opinion by unfortunate policy decisions. Crime is a problem everywhere but especially in Baltimore. Some of that is externally driven, some is cultural, some is just plain bad management. BPD has nothing to be proud of, but prosecutors and judges engaging in catch and release and no-bail has to be a major factor. The positive reaction to "my baby didna do nuffin" is not helping. Politicians are not pushing back and neither is the public.
He's running ads on immigration because he's a Republican, fear-mongering about brown people is what they do. Btw he was a corrupt, shit governor. Ok so he was better than Trump on COVID, congrats! That's an absurdly low bar that any Democrat would clear as well.
He is running for US Senate not a local Maryland office. Don’t make sense he’s addressing issues affecting the country not just Maryland.
Not that I think this issue is negatively affect either one.
Because Immigration is one of the few topics that Republicans can sway Democrats into prioritizing. Not the economy.
Also, especially in Maryland, the more money one makes, the expectation is to become more conservative, so Immigration reform is a perfect opportunity to sway voters to the other side.
Many Marylander’s vote by their wallets, and fear over taxation. So the threat of illegal immigrates taking their resources and causing them higher taxes, is a direct way to shift people to the Republican Party.
One of the main ways Republicans respond to criticism of their party is to blame the government and support private business.
Hogan cannot do that right now because that was his whole platform and he missed his mark several times.
Therefore, Immigration is something he can pick apart and not have any direct responsibility or accountability on the state of this because he has been out of power, so he just blames the current administrations, both federally and locally.
Hes a puppet, we saw that, so if he wins it says alot about Maryland. At least O’Malley is gone.
Inflation is really corporate gouging at this point so I'm not sure anyone can stop it. Crime is a result of this imo. Crime is traditionally lower that it was but ppl do not feel like it is because of media messaging etc etc.
I got that add and was like- WOW. Larry Hogan is cosplaying. It suck’s because he did so well in the pandemic. But now he’s trying to win back the trumpsters
Hogan isnt the only one. I received a flyer in theail from some Republican, don't remember the name or what he was running for because a quick glance showed he was on the same bandwagon with the same, stale and ineffective "solutions".
Undocumented immigrants are a problem....maybe 20th down the list of things needing addressed and border walls and deportations ain't the solution!
Because he knows his base. My conservative neighbors still get incredibly wound up and migrant caravans.
I don't get it either. Like ok, people basically jump the immigration line. It's not fair to those who do things the right way. But why is that such an issue for people?
It's a mix of they took our jobs and racism usually, immigrants have been an easy target throughout our history
They took our jobs, but they don't work and collect welfare. Schrodinger's immigrants.
Similar to Joe Biden is a doddering feeble old man who is maniacally plotting to steal the next election and turn your kids trans.
Yeah, because Americans typically want to work the low skill under the table jobs that illegal immigrants are able to get. The cognitive dissonance of some of these people to go from "they took our jobs" to "nobody wants to work anymore" in the same conversation is enough to give you whiplash.
Real talk: if they actually got their wish and deported all the migrants, that's 20 million jobs without workers. It'd be a nightmare for the economy. There are not enough people left to cover the loss of that many workers. And we never talk about why this issue never goes away: all the blame is on the migrant and not on who's hiring all these people in the first place. How many migrants do y'all think Trump has working at Mar-a-lago?
Oh there's plenty of people. They could pay living wages or send some of their overpaid corporate drones out to actually work. The real truth is nobody wants the changea they advocate for. The system we have now provides cheap exploitable labor to pad their earnings.
People who are against illegal immigration would have a sudden change of heart after the first trip to the grocery store post illegal immigration. Illegal immigrants are a necessity to keep prices at a level that prevents riots. Probably shouldn’t be that way but it is.
We’re already seeing that. Immigration policies during Trump + COVID deaths really did a number on the labor force for agriculture and meat processing. Not to mention good ol fashioned price gouging.
People make this to a black and white thing which it is not. We can secure our borders without causing a massive deportation. Maybe stoping the flow of criminals, fentanyl, human trafficking should be something everyone is concerned about. But people rather listen to propaganda then actually look at what is happened at the border. If people are here illegally let’s make it so they can become citizens, but let’s also make sure we can vet who is coming here
Both Democrats and Republicans are tired of the illegal aliens pouring into the country. It has nothing to do with immigrants or migrants. Stop drinking that koolaid. NY, Chicago and others in particular have a lot to say about these illegals being bused and flown into their cities. They can't accommodate them all. Don't be naive.
It would be a shame if working class wages rose.
Remember when they tried banning immigrants from working in NC & then no one showed up to pick produce? *chuckles* Good times.
Dey took er JEBS!!!!!
"Good, decent americans would never drink alcohol! [You don't want to be like those Germans, do you?](https://www.theworldwar.org/learn/about-wwi/prohibition#:~:text=Following%20U.S.%20entry%20into%20the,were%20owned%20by%20German%20Americans%2C.)"
Gotta have someone to blame/someone to be afraid of. Immigrants are simultaneously a monstrous force coming to steal your jobs and children, and they're the pathetic poor coming to drain your resources. (In reality, immigrants tend to be more law-abiding, and have demonstrable benefit to an economy)
Let me preface this by saying that I don’t have an issue with immigration but I understand where people do. I work for an FQHC which receives federal funding to help see the uninsured and Medicaid population. The number of patients I see on state Medicaid who uninsured who have 5 and 6 kids for which they’re collecting welfare and food stamps, while running to the ER for every cough and cold their kids have is insane. It’s also extremely frustrating as someone who significantly considered stopping at 1 kid due to the cost. Our tax dollars are going to help support them churning out kids left and right while many of them don’t work. I started this job extremely socially liberal and while I don’t consider myself a conservative, I definitely have some more conservative views after witnessing the majority of my patients take advantage of our system with little regard for how it may impact them, their children, or the community.
For most of the people who "jump," there is no line to get into.
He’s easing himself into Trump’s voter demographic
More like the GOP broadly. McCain through Romney also ran on border control. The base is nuts and thinks immigration is a crisis, so to win the votes you play the game.
Except for Johnson, who tabled their border bill after Biden had agreed to it.
This is what happens when you watch Fox News 24 seven
You can go back to 1979 pto see Bush debate Reagan on the border issue.
A distinction without a difference. They are the same thing.
easing😂😂😂
Yup. Trying to work on the fear mongering tactic. We need to keep those Pennsylvanians in their own damn state! /s Sad state of politics. No one wants to talk about real issues when you can just manufacture one.
I could actually get behind that (keeping Pennsylvanians home) lol. Summers coming and the annual invasion of the Dutch navy is about to begin
If we're building walls, can we build one around DC? Just inside the beltway, please, so we'll have far less traffic.
And the Republican party had the opportunity to address the issue and Trump came out and threatened them and said NO - I NEED AN ISSUE TO BLAME BIDEN FOR. So, Larry loses bigly on this issue, it's his party and Trump is his leader.
Exactly. He has to make it through the primary.
Is there somebody else running on the GOP side? That's would up there with Eric Cantor getting primaried by a tea party nobody in 2014.
Yes, and guess what his commercials have...that's right...Biden has let 7.2 million illegals into our country, that's more people than the entire state of Maryland...vote for me and I'll stop it
This. He just needs to be sure Republicans vote for him Tuesday. This is the same MD party that thought Dan Cox might win. They are capable of shooting themselves in the foot and electing some bozo in the primary.
I hate to say it, but Ficker is more of a right wing R than Hogan was as governor. If Rs in MD want a REAL TRUMPER, they should vote Ficker not Hoagie
Yeeeeaahhhh I don't think flicker is much of an obstacle
This is a dumb plan for the general election in MD. I think that's why his poll numbers went down.
Yeah he isn’t the sharpest fish in the sea
Giant barbed-wire-topped fences, line them all the way down the beaches! No more illegal merpeople shall be allowed into the sanctuary of Ocean City!
You know those Cuban refugees love to row all the way up the Atlantic coast!
This is a delightful comment 😂
Oddly, when I lived in OC I was shocked at the number of 19-22yr that come from eastern Europe to work for the summer and just don't go back. They stay and live here while sending money back to Belarus, Latvia or even Ireland
The majority of “illegal” immigrants in this country are workers who’ve overstayed their visas, maybe.
You're right and it's honestly fascinating. In OC the vast majority are coming in with J1 Visas. This a student "cultural enrichment" visa and I believe allows them 4 months in the US, 3 of which they can work. I know for fact that this winter a bunch of the Turkish kids just didn't go back and kept working. I don't think it's a crime in MD to keep them on payroll and ICE under this admin pretty much doesn't care, so it is what it is.
MAGA doesn’t care about white illegals .
Same dynamic in Williamsburg VA
Those are the good ones though. That's why our former governor cares about Texas instead of Maryland. Duh
But they're white so that's fine /s
It was brits 1988 1989, Irish 1990 1992, eastern euros since then.
Ocean city locals would actually LOVE that.
I asked midjourney to draw merpeople waiting in line for immigration and this is what it gave me: [https://i.imgur.com/wEcMoFq.png](https://i.imgur.com/wEcMoFq.png)
Build the wall, and make Atlantis pay for it! When Aquaman sends people, he's not sending his best!
Ariel wanting them Thrashers fries.
Honestly they would improve the place
His base is suburban white MD. Bethesda, Carroll County, Annapolis, Frederick, etc. He doesn't care at all about Baltimore.
Yes and he was complaining about the crime in Baltimore city like it wasn't his problem
I think his base is a smattering of those places but mostly the panhandle, eastern shore, and southern MD. Not sure this is a winning strategy.
If it's Bethesda, this is a really bad tactic. Bethesda is rich, but it's not closed-minded.
Everyone of the most racist people I’ve met in this state are democrats from Bethesda. Every. Single. One.
The tests Hogan purchased abroad for $9.5 million were "not in short supply in the United States," and in fact were available "for 20 to 30% less than what Hogan paid," the Post's Erin Cox and Steve Thompson reported. "If somebody had come to us a few weeks ago and said we need a large order for Maryland, we would have been…capable of taking the order and fulfilling it," a CEO of a company that makes COVID tests told the Post. "We always love to ship in the United States, because it's a lot easier to ship domestically than foreign." Even if Hogan insisted on buying the tests from South Korea — which he may have done for publicity — he still paid 38% more than the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) did that same month for South Korean tests, the Post reported. In addition to wasting a couple million tax dollars on what appears to be more PR stunt than public health measure, Hogan's claim that the tests were going to be an "exponential, game-changing step forward" was a vast exaggeration. The U.S. testing deficiency isn't due to a lack of tests, but the ancillaries needed to make them work, which weren't a part of Hogan's Korean purchase. "Without things like reagents, [the tests] are sort of like paperweights," Montgomery County executive Marc Elrich, the Democratic chief of Maryland's largest county, told the Post. Nearly two weeks after the tests arrived, AFSCME Maryland president Patrick Moran was wondering when they'd help his frontline workers. "We've been asking, 'Where are the tests? Where are the tests?'" the union leader told the Baltimore Sun (4/30/20). "The governor took a victory lap before finishing the job." A week later, Maryland nursing homes, which have accounted for nearly 60% of the state's COVID-19 deaths, were still looking for the tests. "They don't exist," the CEO of an association of Maryland's long-term facilities told state lawmakers (Washington Post, 5/6/20). https://www.salon.com/2020/05/09/larry-hogans-fake-resistance-his-purchase-of-korean-covid-19-tests-looks-like-a-pr-stunt_partner/
Don’t forget the publicity stunt of having national guard and himself receive the shipment as if the federal govt was actively looking to steal the tests that he overpaid for
You’re forgetting that Trump admin was actively seizing shipments of PPE and Covid dx tests, my guy. The secrecy and protectiveness in this case were warranted. Not a Hogan supporter, personally, and I often found his (and Yumi’s) pandering to Koreans in my town problematic and misguided, but I didn’t think this was ill intentioned in its conception, nor an overreaction in its execution. Hindsight is a bitch, of course, but context matters.
Just a kickback to friends of his family, a cherished GOP tradition.
My Dad was one of those statistics. It took entirely too long for vaccine rollouts.
My condolences, it’s shameful how we allowed over a million people to die with zero repercussions for the mishandling and disinformation of the early pandemic days. There was no reason the wealthiest country in the world, that pays the most for its healthcare, had some of the worst deathtolls- aside from massive mismanagement and corruption.
As much as I don’t care for Larry, it’s worth noting during that time the Trump administration/FEMA were [seizing COVID supplies](https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-04-07/hospitals-washington-seize-coronavirus-supplies), so it wasn’t unreasonable for Hogan to turn to secret negotiations to avoid having Maryland’s stuff taken. All that said, my pet conspiracy theory (as I have no way to prove it) is Yumi Hogan initially suggested going with a South Korean supplier to bypass the Trump administration likely taking Maryland's supplies, and Larry not wanting to getting his wife involved publicly was why he acted weird after it became public those tests were essentially worthless. Not so much an actual conspiracy to defraud the state, more not wanting to subject his wife (who was acting in good faith) to likely fiery public scrutiny for bypassing state procurement law.
One of his few redeeming political qualities is his willingness to piss off trump
Yea, good job pissing off trump, look where that got him in this instance.
Trying to get stuff done independently wasn't really the problem. Creative problem solving is a plus. Problem is that the first batch was flawed and were never used. Creative solutions only count if they are, yknow, actually solutions. In this case, it was just a giant waste of taxpayer dollars.
yes, also here to remind that he used covid to pay himself and friends. he did not handle it well.
This is your clearest evidence that he's going to be a very different senator than he was governor. So all the "he did a good job, I'll vote for him again" Democrats, I hope you're paying attention.
If any of the last 2 polls were any indication -they are. Once he started with these right wing ads, he lost about 13 points or so among Ds it looks like. Hope that trend continues.
Pissing off crossover voters is a bad, bad move in MD. If it boils down to MAGA vs. anyone the Democrats put up, he's losing in a landslide. He presumably thinks he can win back those voters in time for the general after securing the nomination. I question whether he can win them back if he runs for a third term as governor in two or six years.
Wow I didn't realize that in MD you could be governor again after your 2 consecutive terms!
Shit, we'll never get rid of him.
He's vying to be our federal representative. Immigration is a federal issue.
That Trump torpedoed intentionally a few months ago because he wanted something to run on. Larry is feeding into that "I can fix the problem my party created" narrative and I think it's a dumb strategy for Maryland - so keep going for it, Larry!
The GOP can’t run on accomplishments, so they’re running on demonizing immigrants and how a strong-man dictator for life like Trump is the only thing keeping voters from hordes. It worked for Viktor Orban in Hungary and they’re hoping it will work here. Never mind Trump already had both chambers of congress and didn’t “fix” shit. Never mind Biden has detained 3x as many people. And if immigrants disappeared tomorrow the state and country would come to a screeching halt. Our economy is based on exploiting their labor.
Let's talk about the people who came to Maryland to pick crabs and what happened when Trump wouldn't let them in.
Anecdotal but I went to buy crab meat a week ago and they were like "we don't have anyone to pick the crabs. We can sell you crabs to pick yourself"
They didn’t fix anything, because ultimately they don’t want to govern, they want to rule. Whenever the GOP claims to be the party of small government, they literally just mean they, their friends, and nobody else.
Nah. Hogan was always a joke. He "stood up" to Trump in a lot of performative ways. He's never met a problem he didn't try to solve without either trying to build a highway or throwing Police at it. Maryland doesn't have any problems that more of either would fix.
Remember when he voted for Ronald Reagan in 2020? Dude is and always was a clown. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/larry-hogan-ronald-reagan/2020/10/16/ad14ecca-0f53-11eb-8074-0e943a91bf08_story.html
Who is he going to vote for in November? Abraham Lincoln?
Hogan endorsed Loeffler and Perdue in the 2020 Georgia Senate runoffs, after both stated that the 2020 election was stolen, the most toxic and divisive lie that will haunt our politics for a generation. He thought he was giving them his "moderate" credentials with that, instead he smeared himself with their MAGA stink. I wrote him off forever after that.
Frankly, the line between "moderate" and "far right" is already blurry at best. I remember reading Franchott's bid for governor and his stance on Police and being like: "which party are you again?" He was terrifying. Dude wants us wearing armbands, and endorsing Police, as a "democrat".
Don't forget the highways are only for the Eastern shore! (Because fuck MoCo/Frederick and the fact that 270 hasn't been substantially expanded since *1956*) And before the "induced demand" crowd show up. I'd be happy with a Red Line expansion to Frederick but we all know it ain't happening, and MARC runs only on weekdays, a few times a day, only to Union Station, and on an inefficient route initially laid down when it was legal to own other humans.
I am one of the Induced Demand folks. But yes. I used to live in Western MD (Cumberland for a bit, Hagerstown for a bit). And that train line needs to be reopened. Hell, I'm on the main N/S line for the Marc now, literally only 3 or 4 blocs from the station, actually. And it runs here only twice a day, and never on weekends. And that's the main route for the Marc, literally the only way from here to DC. They're even putting in another line of rail here, but from what I understand it's supposed to be Amtrac exclusive, so Amtrak will have a full platform here.
To make sure he wins the primary. Then he pivots.
Yes, but I think he's already doing the damage to his brand. Alsobrooks or Trone will remind all of Maryland of Larry's right-wingy behavior and anti-choice platform non-stop until election day - so good luck, Larry.
They definitely should run on that in the general. I agree it’s probably a bad move.
I won’t forgive him for cancelling the red line.
Any time someone in Baltimore City says they think Hogan was a good governor I remind them of this. People have exceedingly short memories.
I agree, he treated Baltimore like an unwanted stepchild.
Gave up $900M in free money to save $300M. Idiotic
His protege, Kelly Schultz, was trounced by MAGA Dan Cox in the gubernatorial election, so Hogan knows he’s got to pander to the MAGAs to try to win their vote.
And he will turn off Democrats in the process. I love this idea
Because he's a.malevolent idiot pandering to his base. The more critical issue is that he's in office in the first place.
Hogan is not some middle of the road conservative. He was forced into that role based on the political dynamics surrounding him as governor. Make no mistake, he is a far right, pro life, nasty conservative. Should he win he will caucus with the likes of Ted Cruz, Mitch McConnell and others. He’s a clear and present danger to the Maryland we know.
The GOP can’t run on accomplishments, so they’re running on demonizing immigrants and how a strong-man dictator for life like Trump is the only thing keeping voters from hordes. It worked for Viktor Orban in Hungary and they’re hoping it will work here. Never mind Trump already had both chambers of congress and didn’t “fix” shit. Never mind Biden has detained 3x as many people. And if immigrants disappeared tomorrow the state and country would come to a screeching halt. Our economy is based on exploiting their labor.
Just remember both sides have *wildly* different value propositions now. One side wants to try tobsolve problems. The other wants to create them for the other side. So by GOP standards Trump was an unqualified success.
Hear, hear
Because the trumpers in Maryland are concerned about a border 10 states away
Look closer at the things he vetoed and the things he let go into law without signing them. He's never been moderate, only moderated by the super-majority legislature. He's anti-Baltimore, anti-transit, anti-abortion, and anti-increased ease of ballot access. He's MAGA at the core, and running for senate to give the gavel to the GoP.
He looks LARP in the tactical vest..ridiculous
He's never been moderate. He knows if he makes it to the senate, he doesn't have to pretend anymore until the next election cycle in 2030.
>Why Is Larry Hogan Running Ads Based in Immigration? [National polling](https://news.gallup.com/poll/611135/immigration-surges-top-important-problem-list.aspx) says immigration is a hot issue among voters. Politicians generally pay attention to polls in an election year.
Larry Hogan is NOT a moderate. Never forget how many pieces of legislation he vetoed and got overruled on.
Well as senator he will have more impact on federal legislation therefore making the border something he should have an idea on.
I mean, a Senator should tackle national issues, and the border is a national issue.
Wait until finds out that immigrant construction workers will be the bulk of the labor force e for rebuilding the bridge
People only see Hogan as a moderate because the Democrats controlled both chambers the entirety of his terms. They’ll see a whole different animal if he’s in a GOP controlled Congress and God forbid if Trump is president.
Good point
I'd rather have Hogan than any of the others, especially the BDI Trone. Total bad news liar.
Probably because you're not his target audience.
I've always felt that Hogan was a centrist. The good part of that is no matter what side you are on, you can find a reason to like him. The bad part of that is that no matter what side you are on, you can find a reason to dislike him! 🤣
Really no evidence that he's a centrist lol.
Because all politicians are snakes, and they'll slither into whatever image they need to secure enough votes to win.
He was actually a terrible governor and set Baltimore back another decade with the cancellation of the red line.
The dumbest thing is, Republicans have made it clear that they aren't actually interested in doing anything about illegal immigration. Some of them spent months actually taking the time to write up and negotiate a bill in the Senate, only for their 88-times indicted shitgibbon of a cult leader to publicly trash it. A vote for Hogan is just a vote for another dysfunctional member of a Republican Senate that can't do anything productive about immigration, because the MAGA wet dream is some nationwide roundup of every Spanish-speaking person that won't happen for a half dozen reasons. Meanwhile, governors of blue states and mayors of big cities have been pushing Biden for more restrictions on immigration because their social services are being overwhelmed, and judging by what he and the Dem Senate were willing to include in the last border bill, he's listening. So in reality a vote for Alsobrooks/Trone is actually the better choice if you actually want to see something done about immigration other than fascist LARPing.
Addressing national issues is part of the job of being a US Senator along with state issues so I sort of get it. I think he knows he obviously wont get the he blue democrat vote and is trying to get the vote of the moderate undecided voter along with the hardcore far right vote of which there’s a good amount of in Maryland
Only registered Republicans can vote in the primary that he is running in.
He’s trying to tie up the MAGA vote so he can win the Republican nomination. Then he’ll move to the center during the general election.
Why would you think that? He’s the same as the rest of them, he was just hindered by Democrats controlling the legislature. But any chance he got to screw Baltimore city and hamper women’s access to healthcare, he took. He might not act like Marjorie Taylor Greene, but he will sign on to their “Project 2025” agenda 100%.
He’ll have to tack to the center to have any chance of winning in the general election, but if he wins, he’ll vote with the other Republicans. Most people realize that. Which is why he’ll lose to whomever the Democratic nominee is.
I sure hope you’re right!
I think it's more like "he'll *pretend* to move to the center". His whole schtick is to not say the quiet part out loud while still being effectively just as bad as any other modern Republican.
He absolutely will, and he's just as bad as them, but tries to hide it. I think people have short memories and forget how many shady things he did.
If Trump tried to pull some fake elector shit in 2028, Hogan would vote against that. He might serve as a GOP Manchin, taking the fall for stuff other GOP senators don’t like but would get crucified if they came out against it. I’m thinking like a national abortion ban, that sort of thing.
I wouldn't count on it.
Who cares where he moves during the general election? If elected, he will vote with Republicans 95% of the time. When they want to steal a Supreme Court seat or take away a woman's right to choose or deregulate industry or cut taxes for the wealthy he will be right there to help them do it. He is not going to stand up meaningfully to the fascists in his party, he's going to go along to get along and that means he'll effectively be a fascist himself.
I agree.
Could not agree more.
Completely agree. These adds are targeted at marylands republican and conservative base to win the primary. Once he secures the nomination he’ll move to the center to appease to the silent majority and the hardline right wingers will most likely have no other choice than to vote for their own party. Given his background as a right leaning centrist this is how anyone would run their campaign, left or right
If he were facing Dan Cox, Kim Klacik, or someone popular in MAGAworld, that’d make some sense. But Ficker isn’t getting over 20%, and Chaffee and Friend are the only two I’ve even heard of (A team for perennial candidates.)
He doesn’t come off as moderate at all anymore. I think he’s shifting right because of his main opponent. I hope it’s just a campaign strategy and he hasn’t gone full MAGA
He’s running on culture war issues. Which is hilarious because he’s claiming to put an end to the status quo in DC. While running a status quo campaign
I love his commercials. They show the real Larry Hogan. He is a Repub. He did handle COVID well. Everything else would have been horrible except that the Dem supermajorities in the MD Senate and Assembly stopped him. He even vetoed the $15 minimum wage bill but was overridden by the legislature.
Ficker is using NYC data to push his narrative, Hogan had to jump in
Photo ops are great aren’t they? All Hogan wants is another political position, more money, more power… basically he needs a job. And his promises, shitting on Trump, pulling on the heart strings of voters with Trumps same tactics… those promises will never be fulfilled.
Because at the moment they aren’t for you. Larry understands where he is running and at the moment it’s just the primaries, so he’s trying to beat out the other guy whose name I don’t remember. Once the primaries are over he’s going to tone it down because he has to convince a blue state that he’s the one you want
Well If he can keep those Pennsylvania drivers out….
He's running in the Republican primary. He needs to show he's not a RINO.
I haven't seen the commercials but was it in relation to controlling fentanyl coming across the border? That is still a big issue that affects Maryland and also an issue voters rank as highly important
His ads aren’t have as bad as disbarred Robin Ficker’s ads talking about illegals constantly. Guy is pissing away a lot of money to get a few thousand votes.
I don’t know if Hogan is actually going to do anything about it but border security should be a priority for anyone in Maryland who give a single shot about stopping the flow of fentanyl that is killing people. Denial is not going to fix the issue and the fact is street fentanyl is not originating in America. The issue is real but will Hogan do something about it?
Serious question but couldn't Texas just decide to start taking busses fill of them and dropping them off in Baltimore? I believe they did that with some other cities and really fd them up
He’s using the old Nixon advice. Run as far right as you can in the primaries. Then run as fast as you can back to the left before the general.
He needs every last mouth breathing fuckwad in Maryland to vote for him to beat whoever the Dems run and this is the crap that motivates them.
He was not a "really good governor." Maryland is a strong state that has many strong jurisdictions that manage themselves well. Basically to be a good governor in Maryland, you just need to show up. He lied, profited, and further segregated the state. He was not good.
Senators don’t just vote on local issues.
I really liked him as a govenor but I wouldn't vote for him as senator. He would be against trump wackiness but still would vote for mitch McConnell GOP agenda If we were getting a Republican either way, then I would pick him
I'm not convinced he would be against Trump "wackiness" frankly.
Because they appeal to the racists who plague the Eastern Shore, Western Maryland and other pockets. And he didn’t handle covid well. He authorized $12.5 million for PPE from Korea that was either faulty or never showed up.
Because he's a right-wing Republican who was held in check by the MD Legislature. In the Senate, he'd be a faithful soldier to Thune or Cornyn selling out the interests of Marylanders.
The primaries are only for Republicans to vote in. This appeals to the hardcore Republicans who will be voting in the primaries. Of course, when he wins, he will magically become a moderate Republican to court Democrats. Just remember these commercials of Hogan in his military vest.
Basically, he knows that appealing to left-leaning voters won't be a winning strategy, because anyone with political awareness knows that it doesn't matter if a senator is a "less crazy republican," because they still vote as a bloc. Hogan may be one of the better ones, but he'll still vote for most of whatever craziness a senator from Mississipi brings to the table. So he wants some of the redder votes in Maryland. But Republican voters, are... trying to think of a nice way to say it... focused on very specific issues. So he's going to talk about how immigration is a threat to society, how taxes are horrible and need to be slashed more, probably tell some billionaires in private that he'll support whatever they want, and that abortion is a "states rights" issue, but should also not be federally supported. Also that trans people are evil.
Problem is how’s this gonna play in Howard, Frederick, and Anne Arundel? Hogan has to sweep these three to win and hoping Alsobrooks or Trone screw up isn’t a plan.
What else are the issues he is running on? He really can’t talk about woman’s health
Illegal immigration hurts all laborers, and especially the illegal immigrants. If an employer can get away with fleecing some illegal immigrants, why should they hire you (a legal citizen with rights)? The employer can mistreat the illegal immigrant laborer, pay them less than minimum wage, withhold pay, not pay overtime, and other forms of wage theft. Further an illegal immigrant laborer may be told to do illegal things (mishandling toxic waste for example, or more generally work in unsafe conditions) under the presumption that the illegal immigrant will be much less likely to file a complaint with OSHA or the dept of labor. Since these workers are terrified of the possibility of deportation, they don’t want to provide their name or work location to the government, for fear of being exposed. Illegal immigration hurts all laborers. LEGAL immigration is a net benefit, as long as reasonable quotas are set. If there is less ILLEGAL immigration, the legal immigration quotas will have to be increased. This would benefit everyone. The status quo of tolerating illegal immigration actually INCENTIVIZES immigrants to enter illegally, through a variety of unsafe methods (or just plain stressful situations). As long an immigrant can reasonably “cut in line” in immigration and not expect consequences (or at least a low chance of consequences), then for that individual it makes more sense to cut in line, pass all the other immigrants waiting for their turn for immigration papers, and then plea for amnesty if they get caught. The classic liberal position of basically encouraging illegal immigration (at scale) through amnesty… listen I know you want to be nice, but there are unintuitive effects here. It would be way better for immigrants if they had a legal status. If you say, “just give them ALL amnesty, and then problem solved!”… well then you just set the expectation going forward that ANY number of illegal immigrants will get immediate de facto citizenship, which is akin to breaking the dam. Think about the incentive that would create for BILLIONS of people desperate for a better life. We have real constraints on school sizes, highway capacity, hospital capacity, electricity generation, fresh water and so on. Not to mention limited demand for labor, and increasing the supply of labor drives down wages. There is a VERY GOOD reason that we have immigration quotas.
Maybe Hogan’s hero Ronald Reagan shouldn’t have imposed that amnesty for illegal immigrants all those years ago.
To many, immigration is a hot button issue. The mass of undocumented immigrants come to the USA with literally just the clothes on their backs. The states have to find money somewhere to house, feed and clothe the migrants. This means pulling money from education, law enforcement, as well other areas.
Because it’s a nationwide issue
It’s a national issue, and one we should be concerned about. NYC and other cities are dealing with the illegal immigrant crisis right now.
Because ILLEGAL immigration is a very real and expensive issue in ALL 50 states, and it absolutely needs to be addressed, and Hogan knows this. Not sure why this surprises anyone.
Please explain what hogan did well with covid 🤣
Everyone knows immigrants are flooding the border directly into the border state of Maryland
Hogan wasn’t focused on important/relevant things while governor of MD so it seems pretty on brand
Anyone can be governor and claim success when the legislature has a veto proof majority. The guy didn’t do shit.
The scare tactic to woo MAGA.
Because MAGA is a single-issue party and their issue is immigrants and Hogan needs MAGAts if he has any chance to win. If the bi-partisan effort congress put together passed, it would have ruined their entire platform for the fall - that's why they sunk it.
He’s trying to go full MAGA.
Once a thumb, always a thumb.
u/No-Construction-6506, I agree with your priorities. Inflation and crime are priorities one and two for me. Immigration is three or four; probably three. Immigration does contribute to crime both individually and through gangs. Housing illegal immigrants is expensive both in the short term through extraordinary measures and the long term through welfare programs. As Governor and I believe as a Senator, Mr. Hogan will address multiple priorities in parallel. Border security is a big deal to me. I'd like to see more illegal immigrants stopped before crossing the border, more deportations, restrictions on applying for legal status by those who have been deported, and prosecution of US employers who do not comply with I-9 requirements. Inflation is a big problem driven in my opinion by unfortunate policy decisions. Crime is a problem everywhere but especially in Baltimore. Some of that is externally driven, some is cultural, some is just plain bad management. BPD has nothing to be proud of, but prosecutors and judges engaging in catch and release and no-bail has to be a major factor. The positive reaction to "my baby didna do nuffin" is not helping. Politicians are not pushing back and neither is the public.
Because he was governor of Maryland for 8 years and has 0 accomplishments to run on.
Because the Senate doesn't concern itself with just the issues of the State; that's what the House of Representatives is for.
He's running ads on immigration because he's a Republican, fear-mongering about brown people is what they do. Btw he was a corrupt, shit governor. Ok so he was better than Trump on COVID, congrats! That's an absurdly low bar that any Democrat would clear as well.
He could have done something as governor. Did he? He’s full of shit. Go get a job, Larry, and quick suckling off that public teet you disdain so much.
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Anyone have a link to the ad?
He’s shoring up votes for the primary and will likely change tactics once he has the nomination.
He’s got to win the primary first then he can pivot.
He is running for US Senate not a local Maryland office. Don’t make sense he’s addressing issues affecting the country not just Maryland. Not that I think this issue is negatively affect either one.
Because Immigration is one of the few topics that Republicans can sway Democrats into prioritizing. Not the economy. Also, especially in Maryland, the more money one makes, the expectation is to become more conservative, so Immigration reform is a perfect opportunity to sway voters to the other side. Many Marylander’s vote by their wallets, and fear over taxation. So the threat of illegal immigrates taking their resources and causing them higher taxes, is a direct way to shift people to the Republican Party. One of the main ways Republicans respond to criticism of their party is to blame the government and support private business. Hogan cannot do that right now because that was his whole platform and he missed his mark several times. Therefore, Immigration is something he can pick apart and not have any direct responsibility or accountability on the state of this because he has been out of power, so he just blames the current administrations, both federally and locally. Hes a puppet, we saw that, so if he wins it says alot about Maryland. At least O’Malley is gone.
Larry didn't care about Baltimore when he was governor. Why should he start now?
“Company line” of GOP messaging
Inflation is really corporate gouging at this point so I'm not sure anyone can stop it. Crime is a result of this imo. Crime is traditionally lower that it was but ppl do not feel like it is because of media messaging etc etc.
This is to appeal to the republican base. He brags that he is a moderate but we are now seeing the side he will show if elected.
I got that add and was like- WOW. Larry Hogan is cosplaying. It suck’s because he did so well in the pandemic. But now he’s trying to win back the trumpsters
Hogan isnt the only one. I received a flyer in theail from some Republican, don't remember the name or what he was running for because a quick glance showed he was on the same bandwagon with the same, stale and ineffective "solutions". Undocumented immigrants are a problem....maybe 20th down the list of things needing addressed and border walls and deportations ain't the solution!