April 21, 2020

Here’s Why President Trump Is Cutting Off Immigration

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Why did President Trump suddenly announce that he planned to cut off all immigration to the United States? Today the media will undoubtedly flood us with explanations, but I think we all know the real one: he’s got nothing in the pipeline to deal with COVID-19 so he resorted to the only thing he knows: appealing to the bigotry of his base. That’s it.

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