Noted political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson in a revealing expose tells why Trump’s immigrant onslaught is his sure-fire political meal ticket in any season. In Why Trump Can War on Immigrants Hutchinson examines the political dividend the immigration assault has paid to Trump. He surveys past efforts in Congress and presidents to enact comprehensive immigration reform. He tells why the efforts went virtually nowhere.
He assesses why the issue of illegal immigration has divided Hispanics and African Americans. He tells why immigration has been fraught with such intense passion, divisiveness, racial bigotry, and political contentiousness. Hutchinson says this is why Trump has and will continue to easily and conveniently war on immigrants.
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Hutchinson opens with Trump’s famed grandiose campaign pledge,” Anyone who is in the United States illegally is subject to deportation. We will carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.” Hutchinson observes “Trump wasn’t finished. He piled it on even higher in 2024. He vowed absolutely no amnesty. He rejected the long running congressional legislative proposal bantered back and forth for giving illegal immigrants in the U.S. a path to citizenship. He promised to make it tougher if not impossible for those here illegally to seek and get redress in the courts.”
“This was not simply one man’s obsessive, perverted, fury over illegal immigration, “says Hutchinson, “. There was a shrewd, hard-nosed political calculus to Trump’s transformation of illegal immigration into manic hysteria. It was popular. It played well with tens of millions of voters. It consistently showed up at the top of the list of voter concerns and priorities.”
In Why Trump Can War on Immigrants, Hutchinson makes a compelling case why and how Trump has shrewdly exploited the issue. And will continue to.
Post featured image: Protesters confront police on the 101 Freeway near the Metropolitan Detention Center of downtown Los Angeles, Sunday, June 8, 2025, following last night’s immigration raid protest. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
