The president’s warnings of fearsome immigrants invading the country are undercut by pleas for emergency humanitarian aid from his government.
By David Nakamura David Nakamura Reporter covering the White House Email Bio Follow May 1 at 5:40 PM Faced with rising numbers of migrants at the southern border, President Trump has regaled supporters with increasingly apocalyptic warnings of an “invasion” populated by criminals with face tattoos who look fearsome enough to be “fighting for the UFC.”
The sharp dichotomy between the president’s rhetoric and the tone of his aides reflects how they are waging a battle on separate fronts — one political and the other operational — as the administration struggles to deal with a mounting humanitarian crisis at the U.S. border with Mexico. Trump, who launched his presidential campaign in 2015 by referring to immigrants from Mexico as “rapists,” has long sought to paint migrants as dangerous. He has inflated the number of violent crimes committed by undocumented immigrants and highlighted sensational murder cases during a prime-time Oval Office address in January.
Trump’s “continued portrayal of the asylum seekers as somehow gaming the system is completely inaccurate,” said Gregory Chen, advocacy director at the American Immigration Lawyers Association. “In fact, most of the people who come here have very little, if any, knowledge of our legal system and what asylum even is.”
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