CHICAGO — Attendees at the Democratic National Convention dismissed the criticism from Republicans that the perimeter fencing and tight security around the convention protecting Democrat officials should also be erected at the southern border.
“It’s a false equivalence, right? Let’s just be 100,” Louidajean Payton from Naperville, Illinois, told Fox News Digital at the DNC’s DemPALOOZA event in Chicago on Tuesday, responding to the Republican narrative that Democrats are being hypocritical by installing fencing, barricades and layers of security at the convention while typically not supporting such precautions along the southern border.
“People are coming in, not necessarily on that border, but they flying in every day. We got another border called Canada and we also have ocean and boats. Right. So the reality is this, right? Security is always a priority. But when you try to stigmatize and divide people,that’s when I know you’re not really for us.”
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Payton continued, “Let’s be honest, those people weren’t trying to cross the border like that when I was little. You know why? Because they could still make a good living doing agriculture, right? But let’s not talk about politics and how it got to where it is right now. So, when you really think about it, the dynamics of what’s going on there, Democrats were concerned about it as well as Republicans. But that’s a false equivalence.”
DNC attendees told Fox News Digital it is not hypocritical to erect a wall at the DNC while the border remains open.
“There are two different issues,” Chukwudi Chuck Eke, a Nigerian-American citizen attending the DNC representing the National Diversity Platform 4 Kamala Harris, told Fox News Digital.
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