Trump Moving to be even Harsher on Immigration?
From FiveThirtyEight:
Kirsten Nielsen seemed fairly on board with the general tenor of Trump’s anti-immigration agenda. Remember that Nielsen was perhaps the most prominent defender last year of the policies that were resulting in children being separated from their parents at the border. Child separation was very, very unpopular, but Nielsen didn’t step down amid that firestorm.2That Nielsen has now been deemed insufficiently conservative on immigration by the president — and that Nielsen may have felt that she could not align herself with Trump’s latest policy moves — is surprising. . . .
But Nielsen’s departure could be a signal that Trump is moving in an even more aggressive direction on immigration. Shutting down the ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border would be an extremely bold step, so much so that some Republican senators are pushing Trump not to do it.
Why might Trump be headed in this direction now? His decision to force Nielsen out is reportedly about the migrant families that are leaving Central America and trying to enter the U.S. at rates not seen since at least 2014. Read more..
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