In an interview with Florida radio host Joyce Kaufman yesterday, Center for Immigration Studies policy director Jessica Vaughn wondered why Black Lives Matter demonstrators protesting police brutality toward African Americans and inequities in the criminal justice system aren’t protesting against immigrants instead.
Vaughn’s comments echo the anti-immigration movement’s long-held — but so far ineffective — strategy of trying to stir up resentment against immigrants in the African American community.
Kaufman began the discussion by complaining about traffic problems resulting from the Black Lives Matter protests and bizarrely claiming that if the demonstrators really cared about black lives in America they would be protesting the recent massacre of 2,000 people by Boko Haram in Nigeria: “It’s interesting why I don’t see Black Lives Matter protesters in Nigeria, where they just killed 2,000 people, but I guess black lives only matter to George Soros and that ilk when they’re here.”
“Yeah, how about black job opportunities matter?” Vaughn said, referring to a Brietbart News report that some undocumented immigrants have been released from detention pending further court reviews of their cases, whom she claimed would take jobs from African Americans.
“It’s pure insanity and shows that the president’s executive amnesty has nothing to do with more efficient enforcement or reuniting families or righting wrongs of some kind in our immigration laws or preventing civil rights violations,” Vaughn added. “It’s all about completely dismantling immigration law and letting everyone stay, and I’m sure in the hope that these people will ultimately associate their life in the United States with the Democratic Party.”
