DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “According to President Donald Trump, the mightiest, richest country in the world is under a threat so huge and scary that it will require the deployment of military forces — as many as 2,000 to 4.000, Trump said Thursday [4-5-18]– along its 2,000-mile southern border. The danger consists of a ragtag caravan formed by several hundred impoverished people, many of them children from tiny Central American nations. Yes, the time has come to protect America from marauding youngsters and their parents. That preposterous notion would be the staple of satire were it not being proposed as a matter of policy by the leader of the free world. Yet again we must ask — does Trump have no shame? Is there no end to his malignant opportunism? There is no immigrant invasion. There’s not an avalanche of interlopers trying to break American gates in search of DACA relief. There is no reason to erect a wall or militarize the border outside the delusional world that the Trump administration has created.”
-Patricia Fernández-Kelly, “Trump’s sending troops to the border to take on 200 kids and parents,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, April 5, 2018 6:45 pm