Moderate GOP Voices on Immigration Were Wiped Out

Harry Enten: “We can peg Republican silence (for the most part) on the fact that many Republicans who might be willing to go after Trump on issues related to immigration are no longer in Congress. They either retired, died or were beaten in the 2018 midterm elections.”

“Last year, I looked at a group of 23 of the most pro-immigration House Republicans. These were lawmakers ‘who signed onto a discharge position to force a vote on a bill that would have created a DACA fix,’ after Trump terminated DACA through an executive order and asked Congress to act.”

“Of this group of 23, 14 (61%) are no longer in the House… Of those nine remaining, a number have come out against the President.”