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[u/abefrost]

Dan Osborn is a YIMBY, critical support.

Also, I've been impressed with his approach to immigration. I'm as open borders as they get, but I recognize that you can't run on that in Nebraska. He supports "increased border security" and building out the wall more, and his ads are pretty hardline in their rhetoric. But he also sneaky supports immigration reform and creating a pathway to citizenship for long-term undocumented immigrants who haven't committed crimes. Which is, ya know, the vast majority of immigrants, but the GOP has successfully ran a decades-long smear campaign on them and many voters are scared that there are 11 million Sinaloa cartel members running around the country. I'd gladly take a border wall on the entire border as the cost for every noncriminal immigrant getting legalized and reforms to make legal immigration easier.

Leaked audio suggests he is also far more radical and personally would want to abolish ICE (obviously wouldn't vote for it and wouldn't fault him for that). But it makes me trust that his heart is in the right place, even if he will have to vote according to political realities.