Border wars, inside Trump's assault on immigration, Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael D. Shear
Type
Label
Border wars, inside Trump's assault on immigration, Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael D. Shear
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-418) and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Border wars
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1120721897
Responsibility statement
Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael D. Shear
Sub title
inside Trump's assault on immigration
Summary
As his campaign rhetoric in the 2018 midterms demonstrated, no issue matters more to Donald Trump than immigration. And no issuewith the possible exception of his opposition to Robert Muellers investigation of his 2016 campaignbetter defines his administration.Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael D. Shear have covered the Trump administration from its earliest days. In Border Wars, they take readers inside the White House to document how Trump and his allies blocked asylum-seekers and refugees, separated families, threatened deportation and sought to erode the longstanding bipartisan consensus that immigration and immigrants make positive contributions to America.As the authors reveal, Trump has used immigration to stoke fears (zthe caravany), attack Democrats and the courts, and distract from negative news and political difficulties. Even as illegal immigration has fallen in recent years, Trump has elevated it in the imaginations of many Americans into a national crisis. Moreover, his comments about legal immigrantsNigerians in their zhuts,y Haitians infected with AIDS, and people from z@#$%hole countriesyhave been incendiary.Border Wars identifies the players behind Trumps anti-immigration policies, showing how they planned, stumbled, and fought their way toward major immigration changes that have further polarized the nation. This definitive, behind-the-scenes account is filled with previously unreported stories that reveal how Trumps decision-making is driven by gut instinct and marked by disorganization, paranoia, and a constantly feuding staff