Topic: Ari Berman

Ari Berman of Mother Jones argues that the citizenship question is a tool for "nativist resentment" and voter suppression. He claims that an undercount of people of color will rig American democracy by shifting electoral power away from diverse states. The hosts critique Berman's rhetoric, specifically his grouping of all "people of color" into a single political category.

During an interview on Democracy Now, Ari Berman appears to make a gaffe by stating that "everyone who's here deserves citizenship," before correcting himself to say "deserves the ability to be represented." The hosts highlight this slip as indicative of the underlying political goal of granting voting rights to all residents regardless of legal status.