Monday, August 24, 2015

Immigration: Trump trumps the truth

This is not serious stuff. Surely Mr. Trump knows that his proposals are completely impractical. So why does he say these things?

By Emile Schepers, People's World
August 18, 2015

On Sunday, Donald Trump released, or unleashed, his "plan" to deal with immigration to the United States. It is hard to know where to start with this awful document, which is a compendium of unachievable, cruel proposals based on utterly false premises.

The United Nations recently released a study that shows that currently, there are 60 million refugees and displaced persons in the world. This number, which is rising rapidly, does not include economic migrants, though of course the two categories overlap. Huge numbers of refugees have gone to Europe fleeing instability in North Africa and the Middle East, with many drowning when their rickety boats founder. The war in Ukraine has created its own refugee crisis. In East Asia the problem of "boat people" has exploded.[...]

Read the full article:
http://peoplesworld.org/immigration-trump-trumps-the-truth/

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