# Repubs have formed an openly racist caucus **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 17, 2021, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repubs-have-formed-an-openly-racist-caucus/940207 "2021-04-17T12:56:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 321
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2021, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repubs-have-formed-an-openly-racist-caucus/940207/321 "2021-04-20T15:05:02Z")
Read it and weep: > [@The Biden Administration - the first 1,500 days \[NOT an Afghanistan discussion\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-the-first-1-500-days/925057/540): > > Well, you’d originally written “deal with them humanely, or to simply prevent them from crossing by any means, up to and including lethal?” And I figured that framing left more possibilities open than, well, This-Or-Not-This. The 13th Amendment says that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist within the United States except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. I propose that we make that a punishment for illegally crossing the border; we… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repubs-have-formed-an-openly-racist-caucus/940207)._