Donald Trump called for the country to go “back to 1798” during a rally showcasing the former president’s full-throated embrace of nativist totalitarianism in the final days of the 2024 campaign cycle. During a Monday rally in Greenville, North Carolina, the former president railed against undocumented migrants, promising to invoke …
Read More »Univision Town Hall Participants Unimpressed With 'Arrogant' Trump
Undecided Latino voters who participated in Donald Trump’s Univision town hall on Wednesday were left deeply unimpressed by the former president. Three participants in the event expressed their frustration over Trump’s failure to answer them directly or explain his policy proposals in interviews with Rolling Stone. Two of them indicated …
Read More »If Trump Loses Again, Republicans Are Ready to Falsely Blame Immigrants
The Republican Party, conservative politicians, and right-wing groups allied with Donald Trump are using exceedingly rare instances of voting by undocumented immigrants as pretext to try to purge more than one million voters from the rolls in battleground states, just weeks before the election — in open defiance of federal …
Read More »Vance Stands Behind Trump's Lies About Migrants
Sen. J.D. Vance accused This Week host Martha Raddatz of “nitpicking everything that Donald Trump has said” when she called out his running mate’s lies about migrants in Aurora, Colorado. “Trump said the city [of Aurora] had been invaded and conquered by Venezuelan gangs. The Republican mayor of the city …
Read More »Trump Plans to Amp Up His Violent, Bigoted Rhetoric in Closing Pitch to Voters
There’s less than a month left in the presidential election, which will not only shape Donald Trump’s political legacy and the nation’s trajectory, but also likely decide whether he’ll face multiple prison sentences. And as he makes his closing argument, Trump is planning to amp up his violent, fascist rhetoric …
Read More »Trump Says Legal Haitian Migrants Are Illegal 'As Far as I'm Concerned'
Donald Trump threw logic out the window on Tuesday. During an interview with Newsmax, the former president claimed that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio — who have been given temporary protected status and are in the U.S. legally — are “illegal immigrants as far as I’m concerned.” His remarks arrive …
Read More »Trump's Big Statistic About Migrant Murderers Is a Total Lie
Donald Trump has recently made a habit of claiming that more 13,000 undocumented migrants who had been convicted of murder were roaming free throughout the United States. The former president blasted the figure out at multiple campaign rallies in the critical swing states of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, and again Monday …
Read More »Trump's Lies About the Hurricane Response Are Getting More Outrageous
In 2019, Donald Trump’s administration approved taking over a quarter of a billion dollars from the nation’s national disaster relief coffers to fund his plans for the southern border. Now, the former president is attempting to malign the federal response to Hurricane Helene by lying that the Biden administration “stole” …
Read More »Everything J.D. Vance Blamed on Immigrants During the VP Debate
Tuesday’s vice presidential debate was a mild meeting of the minds between two men tasked with defending the policies and records of their running mates. What many viewers expected to be a memorable clash between Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D), and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) — both billed as the …
Read More »How Politicians Made the Border Even More Dangerous for Asylum-Seekers
JUÁREZ, MEXICO — It’s mid-June, and Yoemar has lost his shoes. He’s running in wet, muddy socks up the riverbank now. He’s running through thickets of thorny little bushes, his fingers wrapped up in the neck of his t-shirt, pressed to his stinging eyes, his feet skidding against the yellow …
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