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You're right that Biden doesn't have a winning position going against immigration crackdowns at the moment.
But when you're in a losing position in politics, your options are either to change your position, or change the conversation.
The 'children in cages' narrative was a big win for Democrats on immigration, even if the policy wasn't much different from what Obama was already doing. Drawing attention to the bad parts of the system while your opponent is in charge of it, getting some good pictures about it to go viral, shaping a narrative and conversation on the issue that centers those bad parts and nothing else, that's how you flip enough people that the issue s in your favor again.
'Razorwire' has such a cruel sound to it that it's appealing as a possible fulcrum to do that again. If reporters could get a few pictures of immigrant children with gashes over their hands an faces (unlikely unless staged, but who knows), or Texas border guards getting into a shootout with a migrant caravan where a kid gets winged, or whatever, then Dems could flip public opinion again real fast.
Painting Texas border security as cruel and fanatical is a prelude to something like that showing up, prepping the narrative to look for stuff like that and pounce on it. Or if nothing like that ever does pop up, it may still serve as an inferior but sufficient narrative all on it's own, if heated up with a clash between state and federal agents, and tied to Trump's 'fascist' vision for America when he inevitably comments.
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