Thank you for this piece. It addresses not just Trump’s racism and nativism, but also how the entire U.S. political discourse around undocumented peoples is wrongheaded and not based on facts. Let’s not constrain this discussion to that of GOP troglodytes like Trump though. The war on migrant peoples is a bi-partisan project. See this Jacobin piece.

No Friend of Immigrants Democratic presidents have been responsible for some of the most punitive immigration policies in modern history.

Those of us in the immigrant rights movement need to hold both the corporate parties accountable for how they treat our migrant sisters and brothers.