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or when you are pandering to a voter base the likes of which are on here...these are the kind of dumbass ideas you come up with:
This is Trump’s dumbest immigration idea yet
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This just epitomizes Trump's incompetence. You don't want them to come here...then their country needs to be stable and economically viable. Cutting off aide makes those goals LESS attainable.
But that is how this inept, incompetent and unfit President rolls.
This is Trump’s dumbest immigration idea yet
From the wall (to be paid for by Mexico) along the southern border to the crackdown on “sanctuary cities” to repeal of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, President Trump has advanced one harebrained scheme after another, each designed to stoke fear and resentment in his xenophobic base. His chronic scare-mongering, factual misrepresentations (e.g., on crime, wages) and contempt for basic economics have been regular features at his campaign-style rallies. His zero tolerance policy and the ensuing child separation policy were widely panned and, at least for now, have been suspended.
Nevertheless, with the midterms just two weeks away, he’s topped himself in the “Counterproductive and Unworkable Immigration Measures” category with a threat to cut off aid to countries already struggling to address the conditions that spurred thousands to head north.
The Post reports:
President Trump vowed Monday to cut off or “substantially” reduce aid to three Latin American nations, voicing fresh frustration as a growing caravan of migrants that originated in Honduras continued to make its way toward the U.S.-Mexico border.
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In other words, Congress has the power of the purse; efforts to freeze funding would run into a political and legal firestorm. Moreover, the notion of turning destitute countries into more destitute countries with a grudge against the United States is only a “solution” to this problem in the same sense that pouring gasoline on a flames is a “solution” to a fire.
Instead, the logical approach — if problem-solving and not xenophobic hysteria is the goal — is to increase aid, work closely with Mexico and its southern neighbors and prepare for an orderly, humane way of addressing legitimate asylum claims.
This just epitomizes Trump's incompetence. You don't want them to come here...then their country needs to be stable and economically viable. Cutting off aide makes those goals LESS attainable.
But that is how this inept, incompetent and unfit President rolls.