MAKE AMERICA "WHITE" AGAIN

On Friday morning at the press conference when Trump announced the National Emergency declaration to stem the tide of illegal immigrants he announced: "If you’re going to have drugs pouring across the border, if you’re going to have human traffickers pouring across the border in areas where we have no protection, in areas where we don’t have a barrier, then it’s very hard to make America great again.”  He blew the last three words of his lie.  He meant to say "Make America White Again".  Look at the statement.  "...we don't have a barrier".  Barrier to protect us from all those children and their mothers attempting to escape political regimes that Trump and his white-nationalist supporterS want to create here in the good old USA.  That's always the sub-text with Trumps deification of despots and dictators around the world.  In his feeble little Wharton School "educated" mind, he would love to be dictator of America, or maybe god.  As John Cassidy noted in the New Yorker this week, "it’s a symbol of national sovereignty and regeneration", taking America back to the 50s, no that's not it, most Americans disdained white nationalism then and women could vote, well maybe the 18th century with all those brown people as slaves, and when only wealthy land owners could vote, and definitely not women.  That's it!  An 18th century America where the white wealthy were in charge and women stayed in their place.  I guess he didn't say that directly, but he believes that and so do the minority of Americans (i.e. Republican voters) that are now running the country.

Some facts that Trump conveniently ignores:

1) There are fewer people attempting to cross the southern border than anytime in a decade, about 1/2.

2) El Paso, Texas has one of the lowest crime rates of any city in the U.S. and for a long time before the recently built border wall, not because of the Trump wall.

3) "Federal prisons are full of illegal immigrants".  Nope, sorry the number of illegal immigrants in Federal prison is a tiny percentage of the prison population.  You don't come into a country illegally and immediately take up a criminal lifeway.