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Democrats Hitch Their Party to Immigrants
The fierce commitment to immigration is politically risky. But Trump helps.
Most Americans are with them.
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The Democratic Party ought to be on the defensive. It has been little more than 14 months since Donald Trump’s election victory. Throughout his first year in office Trump has pounded away, with vehemence if not coherence, on his trademark issue – immigration. This week, his administration produced an official document ostensibly linking immigrants to terrorism, the effort dramatized by labeling international terrorists extradited to the U.S. as “immigrants.”
Yet the more Trump hammers, the more Democrats flaunt their love of Muslims, Haitians, Salvadorans -- anyone who came to the country from elsewhere.