Salt Lake Tribune · Jun 22, 2018
Catherine Rampell: The real hoax about the border crisis
President Donald Trump listens during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Thursday, June 21, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)Not the family separations, the babies alone in cages, the drugged immigrant children, the stolen toddlers too traumatized to speak, the wailing children whom Ann Coulter slanders as “child actors.”
The hoax is the premise that President Trump’s administration has invented to rationalize such crimes against humanity: his narrative that America has been “infest[ed]” with hordes of crime-committing, culture-diluting, job-stealing, tax-shirking, benefits-draining “aliens.”