Trump's immigration policies were supposed to make the border safer....

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Experts say the opposite is happening.

...President Donald Trump has said that he wants immigration policy that secures the border. But his aggressive policy has instead resulted in organized crime groups preying on droves of desperate asylum seekers who have been turned away by US authorities, according to people familiar with the smuggling operations....

"Ironically, these policies that claim to be trying to clamp down and secure the border and stop smuggling and stop traffickers... actually empower the traffickers, the cartels, the smugglers," says Michelle Brané, director of the Migrant Rights and Justice program at the Women's Refugee Commission....

"They see the desperation of people and they're taking advantage," he said. "The human smuggling business has taken off since the caravan. The smugglers prefer migrants with family in the US. They know family members will respond when they demand money."
Loureiro said migrants at the shelter have told him smugglers have been going around seeking families with relatives north of the border....

"More powerful criminal groups means more corruption, more instability and -- contrary to the Trump administration's wishes -- more migration," Steven Dudley, co-director of InSight Crime, a foundation that studies organized crime in the Americas, wrote in an analysis last month....

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/19/americas/trump-migration-border-smuggling/index.html

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1. No they weren't

His border policies were designed to inflame hate in America to get votes against Dems.

Let’s not pretend they are real policies.

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2. Yup and lets remember there is plenty of hate and racism from donald himself