Policies speak louder than racist, xenophobic words
By Catherine Rampell
July 18 at 7:31 PM
... racist, xenophobic rhetoric has inspired a lot of (deserved) outrage. But did Americans really need to hear these words to know that Trump considers immigrants and brown people to be subhuman? The actual policies his administration has been undertaking should have left no doubt.
Last weekend, roughly around the time of those notorious tweets, Immigration and Customs Enforcement was expected to begin rounding up undocumented immigrants — including some who were never properly notified about their immigration court hearings — in raids in at least nine major cities. Frightened families went into hiding — in their homes, secret rooms, churches. The raids were not as widespread as expected, but lingering terror continues to sap economic activity around the country.
Then on Monday, as the news media and public were consumed by those same tweets, the Trump administration announced a sweeping attack on asylum seekers.
The new rule, which went into effect the following day, bars protection for immigrants who failed to apply for asylum in at least one country they passed through before crossing into the United States. It is intended to close the door to large numbers of Central Americans fleeing persecution, effectively sending them back to perilous conditions in their home countries or in Mexico ...
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