The Trump administration tear-gassed a group of Central American asylum-seekers, including children, at the Tijuana border and closed the border crossing there on Sunday after the migrants protested intentionally slow processing of their entry applications by U.S. officials and poor shelter conditions in Mexico. On Monday, Donald Trump took a break from what we can only presume to be his rigorous schedule of masturbating to photos of tear-gassed toddlers to tweet this:
There we’ve got a renewed statement that Trump will block the processing of legal asylum applications; yet another strong effort to demonize desperate, frightened families; and an implied threat that Trump will shut down the government to get his precious wall. And make no mistake, Trump wanted the images of fleeing, tear-gassed people at the border. Fox News wanted it. This is part of the ongoing project of making Republican voters fearful and filled with hatred toward brown people—Trump’s main strategy for maintaining power.