Trump’s anti-immigration policies benefit America’s enemies

Leaders of enemy nations seeking to harm the U.S. economy and worsen the affordability crisis plaguing American families would love to deprive our country of hundreds of thousands of essential workers.

Fortunately for our enemies — but unfortunately for our country — this is exactly what President Trump is doing with his irrational anti-immigration policies, which primarily keep out and deport hardworking immigrants of color.

The latest example of this is the Trump administration’s move to revoke the legal status of more than 300,000 Haitian immigrants and about 50,000 immigrants from other countries living lawfully in the U.S. under a program called Temporary Protected Status.

A Supreme Court ruling in June said the government could revoke the work permits of these temporary status recipients and begin deportation proceedings against them July 27. The ruling overturned a lower court decision that found the move to curtail the status was “in part” based on “racial animus.”

As a result of the Supreme Court decision, employers have already begun firing Haitian employees who have lost the protection of Temporary Protected Status.

Trump has demonized unauthorized immigrants for years and claimed in an executive order on the first day of his second term that they are staging a dangerous “invasion” of the U.S. 

The president even said such immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.” He later denied knowing that Adolf Hitler used the same language about the 6 million Jews his Nazi regime murdered in the Holocaust.

Trump falsely posted on social media that Democrats want to “allow Criminals, the Mentally Insane, and Lunatics from all over the World to come........

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