In May, in a meeting at the White House, a California sheriff lamented that she couldn’t notify Immigration and Customs Enforcement if a known MS-13 member was jailed for a minor crime. Trump responded:“We have people coming into the country, or trying to come in — and we’re stopping a lot of them — but we’re taking people out of the country. And we’re taking them out of the country at a level and at a rate that’s never happened before. And because of the weak laws, they come in fast, we get them, we release them, we get them again, we bring them out. It’s crazy.”Last August, when the debate about Confederate monuments was hottest, Trump appealed to the fear of white erasure, whining: “They’re trying to take away our culture.

Source: New York Times August 29, 2018 22:59 UTC