Trump's pathetic tweet on deporting millions of immigrants should fool no one | By Raul A. Reyes for CNNOpinion
Raul A. Reyes is an attorney and member of the USA Today board of contributors. Follow him on Twitter @RaulAReyes. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author. View more opinions on CNN.Raul ReyesOn Monday night, President Donald Trump fired off another tweet, just one day before he is set to kick off his re-election campaign before his faithful base in Florida. It was reckless.
Mexico moves to implement agreement with Trump 02:34A legal and political nightmareThe President's tweet, on its own, was astonishing: For starters, deporting millions in the manner he suggests would be a legal and political nightmare.
Trying to get answers on the immigration beat 04:39 President Trump has the power to set immigration policy. But the truth is that this President has only one such policy -- deterrence -- and it has been failing for more than two years. Deterrence, whether it took the forms of family separation, threats of tariffs or of closing the entire US-Mexico border, has not worked.
Sadly, the only tools that this President has, that he feels work for him, are confusion and fear. That is what is behind his immigration tweets in particular and his fragmented, un-American immigration policies in general. With these Monday tweets, Trump is returning to the same xenophobic themes he sounded at the beginning of his first campaign, when he labeled Mexicans as criminals -- and that is as pathetic as it is predictable.
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