Donald Trump’s immigration policy never made any sense, but at least until two weeks ago it had its own kind of nightmare consistency. Trump was going to build a giant wall and force the Mexicans to pay for it, create a vast and powerful “deportation force,” round up roughly 11 million undocumented Americans, put them over said wall, and definitely block the entry of anyone who was Muslim.
This plan was never great on the details. How do you get Mexico to pay for a horror that they don’t want, and which would cost something like the global GDP? Was he planning to send immigrants back through doors, or a build a giant slingshot? And perhaps most importantly, just what color are the uniforms of this deportation force: brown or black? Do little lapel tab skulls come in gold? If yes—then black. Definitely black.
These items haven’t just been part of Donald Trump’s policy list, they’ve been his policy. These are the punch lines, the lines that draw hate-fueled screams of approval from his audience. The ugly fuel of his campaign. Trump’s greatest hit is “they’re murderers, they’re rapists.” The Republican National Convention featured not one, but three grieving families telling the story of how their loved one had been killed by a horrible immigrant.
Deport them all. Build the wall. Keep them out. It was ugly, racist, religionist, and just plain foolish. But at least it didn’t change in any given 15-minute period.
Except now Donald Trump has changed his policy to … nobody knows. Especially not Trump.
from Daily Kos http://ift.tt/2brqYwe
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