Fresh from my inbox, a joint DCCC/DSCC press release:
DSCC Chair Chuck Schumer and DCCC Chair Rahm Emanuel today warned Republicans that their plan to run their 2006 campaigns on immigration enforcement will backfire because of the GOP's abysmal record on the issue and pointed to new polling data by Third Way that reveals that Republicans are vulnerable on their failure to enforce immigration laws.
“If Congressional Republicans want to make immigration the centerpiece of their 2006 campaign, I've got three words for them: make our day,” Schumer said. “The GOP Congress has had twelve years to tackle this problem but has instead taken a ‘see no evil, hear no evil' approach to the Bush White House's failure to enforce immigration laws. These laws need to be enforced but the GOP Congress is looking the other way as the President fails to do so. Americans have voiced their concerns with illegal immigration loud and clear. We don't need more hearings on this issue. We need action.”
“Republicans are running a single issue campaign on an issue that they don't have a single accomplishment on,” said Emanuel. “From border security to enforcing immigration employment laws, a noticeable lack of accomplishments is not a campaign strategy. Americans are looking for tough laws and a Congress with the will to enforce them.”
