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Why The Border Crisis is Bigger Than Kamala Harris “Faux-Pas”
Almost two years ago, the Terrorizer-in-Chief made another one of those terrifying announcements that tended to excite and thrill his #MAGA base to bits, but for the rest of the population of Black and Brown targets, some with strong ties to “shithole countries” — the confirmation of legalized immigration raids unleashed across the country sounded like domestic terrorism.
From the very beginning, Trump’s campaign slogan was soaked in the hateful rhetoric that activated the ire of white supremacists who were boiling over with anger and resentment at the audacity of the first-ever Black president hijacking The White House for two eventful terms.
The #MAGA anthem gained momentum on the promise of the restoration of white power and the triumphant end to threats of extinction that Trump weaponized by installing a far-right and anti-immigration soldier in Stephen Miller, who helped curate the absolute nightmare that became the US migrant crisis.
Like we’ve been told so many times before, the crisis at the US border has persisted for decades under different administrations that evidently failed to successfully construct functional avenues that could help curb an increasingly problematic situation that has now gotten completely out of hand.