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Democrats and immigration, Part II: Healey on the defensive

Appearing on Jon Keller’s ‘Keller at Large’ over the weekend, Gov. Healey defended her immigration record amid mounting criticism from two GOP gubernatorial wannabes. The Herald’s Joe Battenfeld thinks the governor is  trying to rewrite history. I don’t know about that. She deserves blame for not acting fast enough on the migrant/shelter fiasco. But she did break with most progressives by criticizing federal (i.e. Biden) immigration policies before last November’s election and she eventually backed common-sense limits to the fiscally insane shelter program. … Her main problem is that all Dems are getting tarred with the same immigration brush these days, thanks to Joe Biden. See related post here and below.

Update — The Globe’s Joan Vennochi has a good column on the same subject.

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