Pro-Immigrant Voters Don’t Want Trump. Democrats Warn They May Not Want a Hard-line Biden, Either.

A Democrat told NOTUS they “don’t want people to stay home because we have a president who said one thing four years ago and is doing the other four years later.”

Delia Ramirez

Rep. Delia Ramirez is among the Democrats who thinks President Joe Biden should change his messaging on immigration. J. Scott Applewhite/AP

Some Democrats and advocates are worried that President Joe Biden is hurting himself with voters who care deeply about immigrant rights by leaning too heavily into border security.

With the election closing in, lawmakers and immigrant rights advocates fear Biden is running out of time to reassure voters concerned about his crackdown on the border. The president is expected to soon announce new measures to protect some undocumented immigrants as a follow-up on the asylum restrictions that incensed immigrant advocacy groups.

And they had better be good in order to present a clear contrast with former President Donald Trump, Democrats warned.