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During the semester, I shall post course material and students will comment on it. Students are also free to comment on any aspect of American politics, either current or historical. There are only two major limitations: no coarse language, and no derogatory comments about people at the Claremont Colleges. This blog is on the open Internet, so post nothing that you would not want a potential employer to see. Syllabus: http://gov20h.blogspot.com/2023/08/draft-introduction-to-american-politics.html

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Calling Migrant Caravan "an inivasion", Together With Birthright Citizenship,Trump is Bringing Up Immigration Issue Again Before Midterms

The White House has been intent on stoking a debate over immigration as a way to motivate Trump’s base to turn out for the midterm elections, in which Republicans risk losing the House.

Besides the birthright citizenship Trump wants to end with an executive order, in recent weeks, Trump has also repeatedly called attention to a migrant caravan making its way toward the U.S.-Mexico border, invoking it as a symbol of what he sees as wrong with the U.S. immigration system and blaming Democrats for a lack of action.

Homeland Security and Pentagon officials said Monday that they will send 5,200 troops, military helicopters and giant spools of razor wire to the Mexican border in the coming days to brace for what Trump is calling an “invasion” of Central American migrants.

Trump's attempt to bring up immigration issue again seems a way to divert attention from healthcare issue which Democrat have sought to make the leading issue of the election, and fan the flames of anti-immigrant hatred in the days ahead of the midterms.


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I was just about to post a blogpost about Trump's executive order. This is clearly a direct violation of the constitution, so does Trump actually think his executive order will be successful? Also, can presidents even make executive orders that explicitly go against the constitution? Or is this just a publicity stunt from the executive?