To be honest, I imagine there's a segment of the deep state/bourgeois that are pretty opposed to overdoing the immigrant panic thing. If politicians go too far, it could blow back by harming their undocumented work force. There's that golden mean of keeping them disenfranchised and distrusted, so they're isolated and desperate, but also that their position in aggregate is stable enough to keep business steady.
Or it's also possible he just saw blood in the water and decided to pounce.
Possible there's far more rumbling out there about it than they're comfortable carrying water for it, as well. CNN does have a brand to worry about and they have to maintain some level of legitimacy to manufacture the consent for the important stuff.
To be honest, I imagine there's a segment of the deep state/bourgeois that are pretty opposed to overdoing the immigrant panic thing. If politicians go too far, it could blow back by harming their undocumented work force. There's that golden mean of keeping them disenfranchised and distrusted, so they're isolated and desperate, but also that their position in aggregate is stable enough to keep business steady.
Or it's also possible he just saw blood in the water and decided to pounce.
Possible there's far more rumbling out there about it than they're comfortable carrying water for it, as well. CNN does have a brand to worry about and they have to maintain some level of legitimacy to manufacture the consent for the important stuff.