Trump Considers Closing Southern Border to Migrants.
Source: NYT
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is expected to send troops to help secure the border with Mexico. Weeks before the midterm elections, a large caravan of migrants has become the latest immigration issue.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/us/politics/trump-army-border-mexico.html
groundloop
(11,522 posts)cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)....when Bavaria deported trump's grandfather, a draft dodging criminal.
Ironically, when his grandfather first came to NYC he was a barber! Then when he moved out to Seattle he opened a whore house.
RockRaven
(14,998 posts)And all these bombs and Saudi stuff is getting in the way.
keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)If he can already do that, he does not need his wall.
Ohioboy
(3,243 posts)msongs
(67,441 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,440 posts)(per a news report I heard here in Philly last night) it instills fear even in natively-born U.S. citizen Hispanics, who don't want the hassle of being targeted and questioned or even threatened with deportation to who knows where.... even with them being multi-generational legal U.S. citizens and often having had U.S.-born families here longer than the ones going after them, whose own families only recently got off boats from Europe (like the current occupant of the WH).
atreides1
(16,093 posts)Do they realize that by not dealing with the hassles now, that later on down the road it will only get worse...not only for them but for other minorities?
German Jews believed that the Nazis were just a passing fad, and didn't confront them, because it would have been a hassle...we all know how that turned out!
BumRushDaShow
(129,440 posts)are a myriad of different nationalities and ethnicities - some of which have been at-odds with each other for centuries. I.e., they are not a monolith. They merely share the same language.
And ironically, no one lumps the francophones like the Haitians, Senagalese, Algerians, Congolese, Guadeloupeans, and French Canadians of Quebec, all together as a monolith.
iluvtennis
(19,871 posts)Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)Girard442
(6,084 posts)"I can't believe no one thought of this before", he said.
titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)Plus he wanted Kashoggi out of the news ASAP
sinkingfeeling
(51,473 posts)able to vacation in Cancun and the million ex-pats will be upset.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)His effing wall will be like the Berlin Wall.