Posted on 04/01/2024 5:50:36 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The video shared by former President Donald Trump features horror movie music and footage of migrants purportedly entering the U.S. from countries including Cameroon, Afghanistan and China. Shots of men with tattoos and videos of violent crime are set against close-ups of people waving and wrapping themselves in American flags.
“They’re coming by the thousands,” Trump says in the video, posted on his social media site. “We will secure our borders. And we will restore sovereignty.”
In his speeches and online posts, Trump has ramped up anti-immigrant rhetoric as he seeks the White House a third time, casting migrants as dangerous criminals “poisoning the blood” of America. Hitting the nation’s deepest fault lines of race and national identity, his messaging often relies on falsehoods about migration. But it resonates with many of his core supporters going back a decade, to when “build the wall” chants began to ring out at his rallies.
President Joe Biden and his allies discuss the border very differently. The Democrat portrays the situation as a policy dispute that Congress can fix and hits Republicans in Washington for backing away from a border security deal after facing criticism from Trump.
But in a potentially worrying sign for Biden, Trump’s message appears to be resonating with key elements of the Democratic coalition that Biden will need to win over this November.
Roughly two-thirds of Americans now disapprove of how Biden is handling border security, including about 4 in 10 Democrats, 55% of Black adults and 73% of Hispanic adults, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll conducted in March.
A recent Pew Research Center poll found that 45% of Americans described the situation as a crisis, while another 32% said it was a major problem.
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“Trump has ramped up anti-immigrant rhetoric...”
And that’s how the commies do it. Preserving national sovereignty is cast as the negative “anti-immigrant”. Those AWFLs see it and weep, running to the polls to vote Dem.
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Its not rhetoric. Trump is simply pointing out the obvious and inevitable problems associated with open borders and saying we need to fix the problem.
Of course the AP would never use the term 'rhetoric' for anything that Biden says.
Lol… listen I live in Mass. The amount of people who I have talked to who I know are democrats cannot stand the illegals. Now i am not saying Bidens losing Mass but in the end folks cannot ignore the blight on the state or how these people affect their personal and private lives. My wife is an RN at a big hospital in Boston. These immigrants are taxing an already broken system. Even the legal immigrants she works with cannot stand the illegals. This seems to be a bit of a line in the sand round here. I have to believe its not just Mass that is recognizing its not working.
It should read, Trump’s illegal alien rhetoric....
“his messaging often relies on falsehoods about migration.”
Name one....I’ll wait.
What country can I go to to get the freebies we shell out? To non or actual citizens?
Only the left could label the TRUTH as rhetoric.
I know some suburban female types who belittled Trump in 2016 and 2020, but after the illegal immigration under Biden are firm supporters now.
What about the DNC azho’s DO NOTHING RHETORIC. Screw the DNC.
They make a clain aboutt a video, then fail to provide a link to said video.
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