Trump’s Doubly Flawed "Invasion" Theory

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Trump’s Doubly Flawed "Invasion" Theory

Throughout his campaign, President Donald Trump referred to unlawful migration as an “invasion.” Some interpreted this language as a purely rhetorical device to drum up fear and to convey that migrants, despite all evidence to the contrary, come to the United States bent on violence and destruction. But national security and immigration lawyers knew better. With each reference to the supposed “invasion” across the United States’s southern border…