Eugene Robinson: No doubt now what drives Trump's border policy
The Trump administration has manufactured and exacerbated an immigration crisis to further the presidents most consistent goal: to Make America White Again.
Tens of thousands of Central American asylum-seekers, even hundreds of thousands, do not constitute a serious crisis; not for a continent-spanning nation of 330 million, a nation built through successive waves of immigration. The migrants have severely taxed and at times overwhelmed the systems at the border that must process and adjudicate their claims for refuge, but this is a simple matter of resources. We need more border agents, more immigration judges, more housing.
President Trump, however, treats the migrant surge like an existential threat. We cant take you anymore. We cant take you. Our country is full, he said earlier this month at the border in California. But, of course, our vast nation is anything but full. Instead of cant, what Trump really means is wont.
On almost any issue you can think of, Trump is all over the map. But there is one position on which he has never wavered: antipathy toward non-white immigration. From his campaign charge that Mexican immigrants are rapists, to his fruitless quest to get funding for a border wall, to his gratuitously cruel policy of family separations, to his declaration of a national emergency, Trump has left not an iota of doubt about how he feels.
To be sure, sometimes the president uses anti-immigration rhetoric to inflame his base. But unlike with other issues, Trump seems actually to believe his demagoguery about would-be Latino migrants.
The administration acts as if it considers the asylum-seekers to be less than human. What other conclusion can be drawn, after thousands of young children were taken from their parents and shipped to detention centers far away, as a deterrent to others who might seek entry? How else can anyone characterize the notion now under active consideration, according to the White House of transporting migrants hundreds or thousands of miles, not out of necessity but simply so they can be released in sanctuary cities and the districts of Trumps political opponents?
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bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)Fred probably wanted him to man up at military school, but only succeeded in honing his inherent cruelty.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)as part of the reason for his success.
As if making money and work ethic has anything to do with genes. And not that "work ethic" is anything that Trump has.
bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)Guess Mama's Scottish genes are the reason for his success on the golf course.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)What Hitler & the Nazis believed.
bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)Can't remember prize winners remarking how their Jewish/Arabic/Chinese/Russian genes made them better than others.
It seems like it's only folks with a lot of insecurities that have to tout unearned traits to establish an arbitrary pecking order.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)they ascribe it to their work ethic and emphasis on hard work and education, as a culture. Not to Jewish genes or some such thing.
Hekate
(90,829 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Fuck you, President Turd.
Girard442
(6,085 posts)...even though the German military situation was dire. The hatred is all-consuming. Trump has it as bad as Hitler ever did.
Auggie
(31,194 posts)and keep the parts of the country polarized.