LETTER: Trump’s startling inhumanity
Trump's hypocrisy on immigration and tough border talk is damaging the US's image
A caravan of a few thousand unarmed migrants on foot, mainly women and children, getting fewer every day due to distance and fatigue, could reach the US border within the next month or two to apply for asylum. US President Donald Trump does not trust his tried and tested border control. Stoking fear and hatred, he announced that he will send 16,000 troops to assist border control to stop this “invasion”. Eleven Jews were already shot in cold blood in a synagogue in the US because of fear-mongering that accused Jewish interests of being behind the caravan. In the same week, pipe bombs were dispatched to critics of Trump and targets of his wrath, including a former US president. Observers and historians point to the fact that much larger numbers of migrants arrived at the border in previous years and that the US has always been an immigrant nation. In fact, the president himself comes from an immigrant family and two of his former wives, including the current one, were immigrants. Obs...
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