Trump the Chump Discovers the Immigration Invasion By Charles Taylor
Trump thinks that immigration is the road to victory in 2022. Never mind electoral fraud, which is now being conveniently forgotten as Trump continues the show business of politics. He had a presidency to build a wall, and achieved little. It could have been done, but he sat on his hands, as controlled opposition does.
“Just eight minutes into his Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) speech on Sunday, Donald Trump went on his first extended riff, saying President Joe Biden has "triggered a massive flood of illegal immigration into our country, the likes of which we have never seen before."
The issue was famously one of the first things the former president brought up as a candidate in 2016, although he did not prioritize it in his 2020 race. But the placement of immigration at the top of his agenda to bash Biden comes just days after former senior adviser Stephen Miller, a dutiful architect of Trump's zero tolerance and family separation policies, told Republican members of Congress that immigration, more than any other issue, would be their ticket to bludgeoning Democrats during the midterms and wresting control of Congress.
Steve Cortes, a former Trump surrogate and adviser, told Newsweek the gulf between Biden and the last administration on immigration was a topic of conversation between himself and Trump during a recent trip to the ex-president's Florida home at Mar-a-Lago. He said it is critical for Republicans to push the issue during next year's midterm races.
"I 100 percent believe it is the most salient issue for the 2022 midterms," Cortes said. "The Biden initial moves regarding the border and immigration are radical and dangerous and already producing in weeks the beginning of a crisis at the border that I believe will intensify as the weather warms."
Biden has reversed many of Trump's immigration policies through executive orders, seeking to rebuild the asylum system, strengthen the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program Trump assailed, reunite families and revoke zero-tolerance orders. But COVID-19 protocols, in conjunction with allowing migrants to wait for their court dates in the U.S., has caused growing capacity problems in the early going.
Yet Democrats, when asked about this targeted and growing strategy to make immigration central to 2022 races in key districts around the country, said the approach isn't new. They cite 2018, when Trump and Miller ensured that migrant caravans coming to the border were characterized as a clear and present danger every day on Fox News. Even so, the strategy was unable to stop a blue wave from taking out Republicans.”
Never mind about election fraud, oh mainstream news item.
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