My image of illegal aliens used to be honest, hard-working folk who just want to work.
That image is now changing to illegal aliens being violent leftist radicals who have absolutely no respect for the United States and its laws.
They are even burning American flags after putting swatzikas on them.
It hasn't occurred to you that Donald J. Trump is behind these caravans? As for the swastikas, Trump has certainly earned them. His racist, rhetoric was both insulting to the migrants, and triggering to those who defend them.
Trump has done everything possible to create a phony border crisis as an excuse to both build the wall, and to close the Southern Border. While I agree that it appears that most of the people in this caravan are economic migrants rather than assylum seekers, why not let them make their claims and then send them home? The answer: Trump doesn't get to play the hero.
Trump has deliberately slowed the numbers allowed to cross the border daily and claim assylum. After travelling on foot for months, the migrants are now crammed into tent cities awaiting processing. Trump has slowed the process to increase the frustration levels, and to degrade the living conditions to make the camps festering cesspools and increase migrant unrest with both the wait and the living conditions.
Then you get a protest as we saw on the weekend, which then becomes an excuse to fire teargas and further inflame the situation. The "dangerous caravan" becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, not because these people are lawless and dangerous, but because they are desperate and frustrated, and Trump is increasing their levels of frustration and desperation on purpose to have exactly this response. Then he can save he "saved" American from this invasion by barbarian hoardes.
By creating this phony border crisis, then solving it, Trump gets to be a big hero. This is a common trick that despots use to ingratiate them to the population, or in the case of Trump, his dumbass base. Mike Harris, another authoritarian asshole, used a similar tactic to go after the Ontario education funding model. He created a "funding crisis in education", which he then solved by taking school funding away from the municipalities and having the province take it over. He then "punished" school boards which "overspent", which just happened to be Ottawa and Toronto - two cities with a much higher cost of living and much higher wages than any of the other jurisdictions, but which were funded at exactly the same level as country schools with much lower housing costs and wages.
There is no border crisis. Caravans of migrants have been coming for years, and they have been dealt with accordingly. Illegal border crossings are their lowest levels in 70 years. This is a bullshit propaganda move on the part of the Trump admninistration.
