难民与教育和法律服务中心(RAICES)行动基金被迫在超级星期二之前发布的最新移民政策报告卡上为前纽约市市长Mike Bloomberg发行新的和更高的分数。
最初,RAICES的政治部门RAICES Action 在其移民平台上给彭博社打了“ F”字,这与该组织在唐纳德·特朗普总统强硬的移民方式上获得的分数相同。
然而,在周二晚间,在彭博社的竞选团队对计分卡表示不满之后,RAICES Action表示将对计分卡进行更新,以改善彭博社和佛蒙特州的财务状况。参议员伯尼·桑德(Bernie Sander)的成绩。
更新后,彭博社的分数从不及格升至“ C”,而桑德斯则获得了最高分数,从他和沃伦最初都获得的“ B-”升至“ B +”。
正如《新闻周刊》周二报道的那样,彭博社的竞选团队断言,在《 RAICES行动》的第一张计分卡中,错过了由2020年民主党寄予厚望的一些政策。
竞选团队表示,他们已与RAICES联络,要求对报告卡进行更正,要求其反映出这样一个事实,即彭博社确实支持上述概述的许多努力,包括边界非军事化,推翻了特朗普政府广受谴责的旅行禁令,结束特朗普边境墙的建设,欢迎寻求庇护者,扩大签证访问范围,并扩大联邦移民执法部门与当地执法部门之间的距离。
RAICES Action并未将对报告卡的更改称为更正。相反,它表示计分卡“应在候选人澄清或改变其职位并成为公众资源时予以更新”。
“在发布之前,我们接触了所有竞选活动(特朗普的除外,因为我们知道这是毫无道理的),以确保我们在查看了所有平台后获得了最准确的信息,但是其中一些没有回复我们。” RAICES动作说。
彭博社的移民平台似乎确实提到了上述一些举措,包括终止特朗普“无效墙”的建设,将资金转用于投资“智能安全措施”和升级入境口岸“以保护边境和提高效率” 。” 它还誓言终止特朗普政府提出的一些有争议的移民政策,包括旅行禁令。
RAICES Action表示,桑德斯在报告卡的更新版本中也获得了更高的评分,因为该组织已获悉佛蒙特州参议员支持先前被排除在他的排名之外的许多移民举措,包括他认为有必要“非军事化和重组” CBP。
Initially, RAICES Action, the political arm of RAICES, had given Bloomberg an "F" on his immigration platform—the same score that the group had awarded to President Donald Trump over his hardline immigration approach.
However, late on Tuesday, after Bloomberg's campaign team took issue with the score card, asserting that it discounted a number of policy changes the former New York mayor has championed, RAICES Action said it would be updating the score card to improve both Bloomberg's and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sander's grades.
With the update, Bloomberg's score soared from a failing grade to a "C," while Sanders claimed the top grade, moving from a "B-", which both he and Warren had initially received, to a "B+."
As Newsweek reported on Tuesday, Bloomberg's campaign team had asserted that a number of policies backed by the 2020 Democratic hopeful had been missed in RAICES Action's first scorecard.
The campaign team said they had reached out to RAICES to request corrections on the report card, asking that it reflect the fact that Bloomberg does support a number of the efforts outlined, including demilitarization of the border, overturning the Trump administration's widely condemned travel ban, ending construction of Trump's border wall, welcoming asylum seekers, expanding visa access and creating distance between federal immigration enforcement and local law enforcement.
RAICES Action did not call the changes to its report card a correction. Rather, it said the scorecard was "meant to be updated when candidates clarify or change their positions and be a resource for the public."
"We reached out to all campaigns (except for Trump's because we know it's a no brainer) prior to release to ensure we had the most accurate information after we looked at all their platforms, but some of them had not gotten back to us," RAICES Action said.
Bloomberg's immigration platform does appear to make mention of some of the initiatives mentioned above, including ending construction on Trump's "ineffective wall" and diverting the funds to investing in "smart security measures" and upgrading ports of entry "to protect the border and increase efficiency." It also vows to end a number of controversial immigration policies introduced by the Trump administration, including the travel ban.
RAICES Action said Sanders also received a higher grade in the updated version of the report card because the organization had learned that the Vermont senator supports a number of immigration initiatives that had previously been left out of his ranking, including his belief in the need to "demilitarize and restructure" CBP.