Mr. Trump's authoritarian tactics aren't just limited to his war on
the media. His second approach is to attack and scapegoat immigrants,
religious minorities, and refugees ever since he stood in the lobby of
Trump Tower and said:
When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their
best. . . . They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. Since then President Trump has made it his mission to turn the
American people against Mexican immigrants, to make them the enemy. He
has talked about the ``bad hombres'' flooding across our southern
border, stealing our jobs, committing crimes, and murdering American
citizens. In his mind, the people coming from Mexico are all dangerous,
violent cartel members transporting an endless supply of drugs across
our country in order to ruin America. But this storyline is completely
at odds with the facts. First, drug cartels do not ship their products
into our country through the backpacks of immigrants. Recently I traveled with a congressional delegation to the U.S.-
Mexico border to examine this issue. The experts on the border told our
delegation that drugs come into the United States through freight, in
trucks, and through tunnels--not through backpacks.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization that Mexican immigrants are criminals, drug dealers, and rapists.
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