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But Joe did it artfully.
Manchin was able to obfuscate the statement by saying on CNN's 'State of the Union' that we "don't need that type of rhetoric on either side, from Nancy, (Speaker) Paul Ryan or anybody else."
Paul Ryan did not make such a statement, nor did anybody else in the Republican Party. But by throwing in Ryan's name and 'anybody else,' it sounds as if both parties are guilty of identity politics, when, in fact, that's the bread and butter of the left.
Manchin leads a bipartisan Senate group that is trying to solve the immigration problem.
But the problem is, Republicans see it as a legal and a national security problem, while the Democrats see it as a voting block problem they need to get their hands on.
Senate Minority Leader Charles "Nostrils" Schumer of New York, called Trump's plan a wish list" for hard-liners. He acknowledged the areas of common agreement on both sides for illegal immigrants shielded by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA).
But Schumer flared his mighty nostrils and accused Trump of using DACA recipients as "a tool to tear apart our legal immigration system and adopt the wish list that anti-immigration hardliners have advocated for years."
Naturally, Schumer is full of it. Most conservatives have no issue with legal immigration. We tend to follow the law and want others coming here to do the same. And let's face it, if most immigrants were to vote Republican, the Democrats would be taking the same stance on illegal immigration that conservatives take.
If the left really cared about DACA recipients, they would have immediately passed Trump's plan to allow 1.8 million DACA recipients to stay here, almost three times as many as Obama did, but the Democrats need it as an issue for the midterms.
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