A Democratic staff who has done work on campaigns for two Ohio candidates was recently captured on video making a call for open borders and slamming those who want border security and an end to the immigration crisis as being “racist.” Listen. I’m an Ohio boy. These are my people being slandered. Yes, it’s true there are a lot of conservative folks here, but for the most part, everyone just believes in good, old fashioned common sense. We cannot sustain open borders. As a country we have limited resources. It’s not our job to save the world. We are to live as a community and take care of each other. If outsiders want to be part of that community, there’s certain things they are required to do, which includes coming in through the front door, not the back window.
“Open the f—ing border, I don’t give a s— who comes in here,” the staffer, who has been identified and first reported by Ohio.news as Kevin Oyakawa, remarked on a video during a discussion with a volunteer earlier in October.
VIDEO: Sherrod Brown, Emilia Sykes Operative Accuses Ohioans of ‘Pure Racism’, Wants Border Wide Open pic.twitter.com/dykjrZTwc2
— Ohio.news (@RealOhioNews) October 24, 2024
“We don’t need border patrol but, [the] issue with even talking about immigration here in Ohio is that it’s a losing issue for Democrats here, for like no f—ing reason other than people’s pure racism,” Oyakawa, who published on Facebook that he was given a job by the Ohio Coordinated Campaign to “re-elect Sherrod Brown, Congresswoman Emilia Sykes, and other down ballot Democratic candidates,” went on to share in the conversation.
“That’s why,” Oyakawa reveals, “It’s probably hard to find anything about like where she [Sykes] stands on it. In terms of the way that she talks with the public, if she has to start talking about immigration, she starts losing.”
via Fox News:
Oyakawa’s LinkedIn page, before it was deleted on Thursday, listed him as a regional organizing director in Ohio for the Ohio Democratic Party. Photos on social media show him canvassing for Sykes and Brown and in a now-deleted Facebook post he wrote that he is “responsible for leading a team of field organizers on day to day operations of the campaign” in Summit and Stark counties. “Just another guy who is active in the Resistance,” Oyakawa’s Facebook page says along with a photo of him standing with an Emilia Sykes sign with various other volunteers.
“Congresswoman Emilia Sykes has worked to deliver increased funding to help secure our border and stop the flow of illegal drugs like fentanyl. She also cosponsored the bipartisan Dignity Act that would address border security and infrastructure, all while her opponent Kevin Coughlin uses the border to play politics,” the Sykes campaign told Fox News in a statement.
A spokesperson for Brown’s campaign also sent a statement to Fox News on the matter saying, “While Sherrod supports the bipartisan border security bill backed by border patrol agents and has worked with both parties to secure our southern border and keep Ohioans safe from fentanyl by cracking down on the chemical suppliers in China and drug cartels in Mexico, Bernie Moreno opposes these efforts because he isn’t looking out for Ohioans.”
The GOP opponents of both Brown and Sykes have come out and totally obliterated the two of them over Oyakawa’s statements.
“Sherrod Brown’s staff is saying the quiet part out loud: Ohio Democrats would rather keep the border open and continue to allow millions of illegals to enter our nation rather than secure the border and protect our communities,” Reagan McCarthy, communications director for Brown’s GOP challenger, Bernie Moreno, said to the reporters at Fox News Digital.
Kevin Coughlin, a former Ohio state Senator who is currently running against Sykes for the 13th Congressional District, spoke with Fox saying, “Ohioans are already aware of Emilia Sykes’ dangerous open border policies, and now we see what she and her team support behind closed doors. It’s bad enough that Ohio communities are suffering from fentanyl and crime flowing over our borders, but her team has no remorse. And she calls anyone who disagrees with her ‘racist.'”
“It’s disgusting, and Emilia Sykes should condemn this immediately,” he added.
What this man said during this conversation is what many liberal Democrats actually believe, they just won’t say it out loud due to fear of the blowback they might receive. Remember, what matters most to progressives is the agenda and then their own personal careers. Doing what’s right for us, upholding the Constitution, doesn’t even make it on the radar for them.
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