'Birtherism Is Now Federal Policy'
The Trump administration is denying basic rights to dark-skinned citizens.
By David Leonhardt Opinion Columnist Aug. 31, 2018
In early 2011, Donald Trump began doing two things: trying to raise his profile among influential Republicans and publicly spreading the lie that Barack Obama was not born in the United States.
So from the very beginning, a false claim about a dark-skinned American not really being an American has been central to Trumpism. Now, the idea appears to have become part of federal policy.
Kevin Sieff of The Washington Post reported this week that a growing number of Latino citizens in Texas were having their citizenship questioned and being denied passports. “The Trump administration,” Sieff writes, “is accusing hundreds, and possibly thousands, of Hispanics along the border of using fraudulent birth certificates since they were babies, and it is undertaking a widespread crackdown.”
It is a chilling story, and it’s one that should not be allowed to disappear amid all of the tumult of Trump’s presidency. I can’t think of anything as profoundly un-American as denying rights to citizens based on their ethnicity.
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