“Trump’s Dangerous Immigration Obsession”

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Jonathan Blitzer in the New Yorker reminds us of the stark consequences of a victory of the Trump/Vance ticket in thr 2024 election:

“Donald Trump’s most outrageous pronouncements on immigration are rarely shocking for long; they’re usually eclipsed within days, if not hours, by even more grotesque claims. Last year, in what should have been an enduring political scandal, Trump blamed immigrants for `poisoning the blood of our country.’ He has repeated his solution—mass deportation—so often that it’s become a campaign slogan. In a national Scripps News/Ipsos poll last month, fifty-four per cent of those asked agreed, either `strongly’ or `somewhat,’ with Trump’s call, including a quarter of Democrats. Maybe people can’t imagine what an action like that would entail; or, worse, maybe they can.”

KJ