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What Trump Wants on Immigration is Ethnic Cleansing
‘Open hand’
full of
poison pills
P eter C erto
I’ll be honest:
I didn’t watch
Trump’s State of
the Union address
when it aired.
Instead, I put my
baby to bed and
watched reality TV
with my wife. If that rattled a
few brain cells, hopefully I
saved a few more by not guz-
zling the bourbon I’d set aside
to steel myself for the speech.
The next day’s headlines put
an end to this brief indulgence
in self care.
Trump had extended an
“open hand” to work with
Democrats on immigration,
they reported. He crowed that
he’d come up with a “biparti-
san approach” that “should be
supported by both parties as a
fair compromise.”
The first part of the deal
should sound familiar: Trump
said he’d support “a path to cit-
izenship” for nearly 1.8 million
by
undocumented young people,
or Dreamers, in exchange for
his border wall.
What Trump didn’t say was
that he’d already removed de-
portation protections from the
700,000 young people
who rely on the DACA
program, which Trump
unilaterally
revoked.
And he’d already re-
jected an offer by Sen-
ate Democrat Chuck
Schumer to fund the wall
in exchange for authoriz-
ing those same people.
Democrat Luis Gutierrez,
perhaps the staunchest wall
critic and immigrant advocate
in the House, even said he’d
“take a bucket, take bricks, and
start building it myself” if it
saved the Dreamers.
Trump’s about-face on that
deal is why the government
shut down this January.
Now Trump wants two more
enormous concessions: an end
to the so-called “diversity visa”
program and the end of family
reunification policies for doc-
umented immigrants who are
already here.
Trump rattled off these
demands like they were per-
fectly reasonable — “a down-
the-middle compromise,” he
called them. They’re not. In
fact, one former speech writer
for the last White House called
them “a white nationalist wish
list.”
That’s because, according
to immigration analysts, those
latter two provisions would cut
legal immigration by nearly
half. Half.
And to get that, Trump’s ran-
somed nearly 2 million Dream-
ers, whom 80 percent of Amer-
icans support legal status for.
He’s taking them hostage, he
says, “because Americans are
Dreamers, too.” All you need
to know about that last remark
is that former KKK leader Da-
vid Duke quoted it right back
on Twitter, adding “Thank you,
President Trump.”
Let’s put all this in context.
Trump’s offering a fig leaf
of legal status for a relative-
ly small slice of the undocu-
mented population. In return,
he wants to permanently —
and drastically — reduce the
number of all immigrants who
come to this country.
What Trump and his GOP
backers want is ethnic cleans-
ing.
It’s not just the Dreamers
Trump has endangered, after
all. He’s unleashed his ICE
stormtroopers on hundreds of
thousands of immigrants with
no criminal backgrounds, of-
ten in hospitals, churches, and
schools.
And wherever he can, he’s
turned perfectly legal residents
into deportable immigrants
overnight.
With the stroke of a pen, he
ended protections for 200,000
Salvadorans and 60,000 Hai-
tians, while 57,000 Hondu-
rans wait in limbo. And he’s
brought refugee admissions to
their lowest levels in over three
decades, despite a global refu-
gee crisis.
All that tracks perfectly for a
guy who called darker-skinned
countries “s—holes” and won-
dered why we can’t have more
immigrants from Norway.
Democrats who’d offer a
border wall in the face of all
this miss the point: That “open
hand” is full of poison pills.
Peter Certo is the editorial
manager of the Institute for
Policy Studies and editor of
OtherWords.org.