If reelected, Trump has pledged to finish the border wall, reinstitute travel bans and launch mass deportation efforts.

With a border deal hanging in the balance and the Iowa caucuses a month away, Donald Trump amplified his attack on immigrants at a rally in New Hampshire on Saturday.

“They’re poisoning the blood of our country,” the former president said. “They’ve poisoned mental institutions and prisons all over the world. Not just in South America, not just the three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world they’re coming into our country from Africa, from Asia.”

While in the White House, Trump sought to deter immigration by building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, building some 450 miles of fencing along the nearly 2,000-mile border, much of which replaced existing barriers. In addition to strict border security measures, his administration also implemented a travel ban for people from several predominantly Muslim countries.

  • RealFknNito@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. Israel, Argentina, Trump, just full blown fascism without a hint of irony. It’s like they read the stories of the past but were incapable of learning from it. They better learn quick because the last guy that made an earnest effort went to sleep on the cold concrete of a bunker with his wife and kids. They’re delusional if they think it’ll end differently.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      It’s like they read the stories of the past but were incapable of learning from it.

      That or took the wrong lessons from it, which seems more likely.