IMMIGRATION/RACISM/SANCTUARY CITIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “What exactly did President Donald Trump mean by ‘breeding’ when he tweeted Wednesday [4-18-18] about cities that will not cooperate with the federal government to deport the undocumented… ‘There is a Revolution going on in California. Soooo many Sanctuary areas want OUT of this ridiculous, crime infested & breeding concept…’ Taken literally, the most likely explanation is that he’s talking about sanctuary cities as places where undocumented immigrants breed. If that’s right, there’s a racial undertone in the comment should slap you in the face. Fear of immigrants from certain countries ‘breeding’ has been a staple of nativist thought for hundreds of years. The ‘breeding’ fear has been affixed to Jews from Eastern Europe, Catholics from Ireland and Italy, Chinese and, now, Latinos, Filipinos, Africans and Haitians. This is dog-whistle politics at its worst. ‘Breeding’ as a concept has an animalistic connotation. Dogs and horses are bred. So his use of it is, at best, dehumanizing to the immigrants he appears to be referring to.”
– Z. Byron Wolf, “Trump blasts ‘breeding’ in sanctuary cities. That’s a racist term.,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, April 18, 2018 11:32 am