What Vance and Walz had to say about abortion and immigration • Ohio Capital Journal

“Telehealth is such a benefit to people in rural areas who might not otherwise have access to health care, and in the event that the Trump administration were to choose to ban or restrict mifepristone, it would be a real hardship for the residents of Ohio,” she said. .

Vice President Kamala Harris and Walz have discussed restoring protections under Roe v. Wade.

“If Harris and Walz were elected, we would expect that federal policy would be very much in line with what voters passed in terms of the constitutional amendment around protecting abortion access in Ohio,” Bessett said.

Last year, 57% of Ohioans voted to enshrine reproductive rights in the state’s constitution.

Immigration

Immigration came up a lot during Tuesday’s debate, but “The conversation about immigration seems disconnected from reality,” he said César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, the Gregory Williams Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at The Ohio State University.

Vance claimed that illegal immigrants have overwhelmed Springfield’s schools, hospitals and homes, but local officials have rejected his characterization.

The Haitian migrants in Springfield are in the country legally with temporary protected status. Walz pointed out during the debate how Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has said the Haitians in Springfield are legally in the United States.

“When it becomes a topic of conversation like this, we dehumanize and vilify other people.” Walz said during the debate.

Trump told reporters in September that he would carry out “the largest deportation in the history of our country.”

But when asked twice during Tuesday’s debate whether they would deport parents who entered the U.S. illegally and separate them from their U.S.-born children, Vance did not answer the question.

“We should expect that during a second (Trump) term there will be some significant resistance from advocates, as well as from state and local elected officials and governments in much of the United States, and so a deportation campaign model … will have to rely heavily of the resources of state and local governments controlled by Republicans.” Hernández said.

Vance also suggested that migrants are responsible for bringing fentanyl into the United States, which is not true. About 86% of people According to data from the United States Sentencing Commission, those convicted of trafficking in fentanyl were U.S. citizens.

“Drug cartels generally do not send fentanyl in backpacks that people use to walk across the southern border,” Hernández said. “Fentanyl is clearly a huge problem in the United States, but it is not a migrant problem with drugs entering through ports of entry.”

According to her policy concerns, Harris would sign the bipartisan border security bill into law, which would add 1,500 new Border Patrol agents.

“The implication is that this will somehow deter people from coming to the United States unlawfully,” Hernández said. “It is unclear to me what the basis for that conclusion is.”

The National Border Patrol Council approved the piece of legislation, but Senate Republicans voted against it earlier this year Trump pressured them to vote against it in an attempt to use border security during campaigns.

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