Twitter is now the go-to place to confront each other in public, especially when it comes to the ongoing debate on immigration reform. Today is no different, as you will see from the following thread which started when the Twitter profile of America’s Voice, a pro-immigration DC group, got a tweet back from the Twitter profile of Senator Marco Rubio for using the hashtag #GangofHate when describing certain senators who are not really that into the current immigration reform bill from the Gang of Eight, which is currently in markup phase.
It all started a few days ago with this (and an announcement to the press):
DREAMers to @senatorsessions: failed self-deportation approach has no place in immigration debate americasvoiceonline.org/blog/dreamers-… #gangofhate
— americasvoice (@americasvoice) May 2, 2013
It then moved to this:
.@jimdemint is trying to stand in the way of immigration reform (and his party’s demographic future) bit.ly/131IL22 #gangofhate — americasvoice (@americasvoice) May 2, 2013
Soon it started to make the DC circles:
RT @seungminkim Immigration reform group @americasvoice names Senate #GangofHate” — names Sessions, Grassley, Cruz, Cornyn, Vitter — americasvoice (@americasvoice) May 3, 2013
Another Jeff Sessions tweet, whom we think is probably the ringleader of the anti-immigration vote:
.@senatorsessions brings anti-immigrant #GangofHate message to Boston bit.ly/136327E w @howiecarrshow #immigration
— americasvoice (@americasvoice) May 3, 2013
The tweets got more frequent today:
RT @capimmigration: 5 Reasons MEDIA Should Be Wary Of Heritage Foundation’s New #Immigration Reportbit.ly/ZF5m4L #gangofhate
— americasvoice (@americasvoice) May 6, 2013
RT @jordanfabian: + Sessions MT @marcacaputo America’s Voice holds conf call on “Gang of Hate:” Vitter, Cruz, Paul, Grassley #GangofHate — americasvoice (@americasvoice) May 6, 2013
@marcacaputo Also @chuckgrassley, not Paul #gangofhate — americasvoice (@americasvoice) May 6, 2013
Which finally led to this:
@amaricasvoice smear calling Senators #gangofhate is a disgrace.I disagree with them on parts of #immigrationreform but they are not haters
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) May 6, 2013
Granted, the Rubio tweet had a typo, but you get the point. Rubio’s tweet then led to these tweets:
.@marcorubio There’s reasonable disagreemnt on legislation, then there’s calling the DREAM Act an “illegal alien stdent bailout” #gangofhate
— americasvoice (@americasvoice) May 6, 2013
.@marcorubio there’s legit policy debate, then there’s Grassley/Sessions inviting Kris Kobach 2 SJC to promote self-deportation #gangofhate
— americasvoice (@americasvoice) May 6, 2013
Just another day in the immigration debate. It really will never end.
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