Democrats lurch too far left in response to Trump on immigration
by Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
Jul 23, 2019
3 minutes
President Trump is running for re-election the same way he won in 2016, dividing the country into hostile camps and telling white voters he's their only protection against black and brown immigrants.
So he has targeted Ilhan Omar, a naturalized American from Somalia elected to Congress in November, and suggested that she and other minority Democrats should "go back." At a rally in North Carolina last week, the president's supporters took his cue, chanting "send her back."
Democrats responded with appropriate outrage to Trump's vilification of dissenters with
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