BORDER WARSInside Trump’s Assault on ImmigrationBy Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael D. ShearOn the morning of Jan. 11, 2018, Senator Richard Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, received a phone call from the president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, summoning him to the White House. The news from Trump was encouraging. “I don’t know where that guy” — the more amenable Trump — “went,” Graham told the homeland security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen days later. Davis and Shear perform this contextual service time and again throughout their book, which is essential reading for those searching for the “beating heart” of the Trump administration. The authors argue it is immigration policy, and who can dispute that?

Source: New York Times October 08, 2019 09:00 UTC