The invisible wall: how Trump is slowing immigration without laying a brick
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While Trump’s ‘great, great wall’ has yet to materialize, his administration has quietly built a barrier of bans, roadblocks and bureaucratic burdens
Amanda Holpuch in New York @holpuch
Sun 24 Dec 2017 00.58 AEDT Last modified on Sun 24 Dec 2017 01.51 AEDT
Donald Trump has failed to add another inch to the country’s border wall between the US and Mexico, but his administration this year has quietly erected a steep, invisible wall that limits migration to the US, according to interviews with lawyers and refugee groups.
Some of these roadblocks received considerable attention, like the three versions of a travel ban on people from Muslim-majority countries and the cancellation of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) – an Obama-era program that protected undocumented youth raised in the US.
But the Trump administration also appears to have orchestrated a more subtle attack on immigration that touches the most vulnerable populations, like refugees, as well as powerful business people who work in the US. This is what the hours after being deported look like Read more
“I think that they’re basically hoping that five years from now we see a significant decrease in the number of people who even want to come,” Sandra Feist, an immigration lawyer in Minnesota, told the Guardian. “I think if we keep this up, that’s what we’ll see.”
Trump's wall rage is more a fear-mongering effort than his proclaiming any real difference between him and the Democrats as the wall has been under construction for many years. And i'm thinking that Trump's promise of a physical wall all the way may have been just yet another Trump campaign lie.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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