Trump's devious immigration ploy

It all started with Mitt Romney ...

President Trump.
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The Trump administration is pursuing a fascist policy against undocumented immigrants. Yet undocumented immigrants were deported at significantly higher rates during the Obama administration.

Those two statements encapsulate the confusion enveloping immigration policy under President Trump. Day after day, stories pile up of ICE raids and abuse of immigrants in detention, with the most recent and most outrageous being accounts of parents and children being forcibly separated by immigration authorities at the border.

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Damon Linker

Damon Linker is a senior correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is also a former contributing editor at The New Republic and the author of The Theocons and The Religious Test.