Commentary: Trump's 'Angel Families' demonize immigrants and block reform
by Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times
Jun 28, 2018
3 minutes
In a presidency - in a career - marked by grotesque spectacle, few moments beat the news conference that President Donald Trump held last Friday with "Angel Families" for tackiness and rank opportunism.
Trump had, two days earlier, grudgingly signed an executive order to stop separating kids from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. At the news conference, Trump tried to flip the narrative back to his America First worldview. He talked about children, all right - but those killed by "criminal illegal aliens."
Behind him were
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