Trump’s Fearmongering about Migrant Caravan

Expand Central American migrants take a break from traveling in their caravan, as they journey to the U.S., in Matias Romero, Oaxaca, Mexico April 3, 2018. © 2018 Reuters President Donald Trump’s three-day Twitter rant on migrants in Mexico and call to send National Guard troops to the border comes along with a new push from the White House for immigration legislation. But the adminstration’s legislative proposals are as draconian as Trump’s tweets are misleading. And both draw from the same false narratives about asylum seekers and immigrants. What Trump likes to call “catch and release”…

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