On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Alex Wagner Tonight,” Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) stated that the lesson from Rep.-Elect Tom Suozzi’s victory in New York’s U.S. House special election “should not be you’ve got to talk tough and talk about shutting down the border” but that “what’s happening at the border [has] a direct and inverse relationship to the fact that we have taken away all of these legal pathways and we have a legal immigration system that simply isn’t working” and noted that Suozzi “talked about a path to citizenship.”
Jayapal said, “I think it depends on what you call the Suozzi playbook. I’m — well, congratulations to Tom Suozzi. I served with him before, looking forward to serving with him again. He ran a great, disciplined campaign. Secondly, I think what Democrats should learn is,…
