Border wars : inside Trump's assault on immigration

Summary: No issue matters more to Donald Trump and his administration than restricting immigration. Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael D. Shear have covered the Trump administration from its earliest days. In Border Wars, they take us inside the White House to document how Stephen Miller and other anti-immigration officials blocked asylum-seekers and refugees, separated families, threatened deportation, and sought to erode the longstanding bipartisan consensus that immigration and immigrants make positive contributions to America. Their revelation of Trump's desire for a border moat filled with alligators made national news. As the authors reveal, Trump has used immigration to stoke fears ("the caravan"), attack Democrats and the courts, and distract from negative news and political difficulties. As he seeks reelection in 2020, Trump has elevated immigration in the imaginations of many Americans into a national crisis.

Record details

ISBN: 1982117400
ISBN: 9781982117405
Physical Description: print
476 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2020.

Content descriptions

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Prologue -- The vessel -- Breaking the apology-retreat cycle -- The Hamilton group -- Forty-three minutes -- "Bring out the crazies" -- "A fucking watered-down version" -- Shackles off -- Angels and demons -- No legal basis -- The Trump effect fades -- The Admiral's almanac -- Refugees not welcome -- A not-so-global compact -- Blind spot -- No way out -- Life in two-year increments -- Forced removal -- "Just bite the bullet" -- "Shithole countries" -- Ash and trash -- "No more DACA deal!" -- Zero tolerance -- Reverse boomerang -- Always a bomb thrower -- "You've kidnapped our kids" -- Evelyn and Amber -- "Pencils down" -- Use of force -- Hijacking the midterms -- Mexican standoff -- Shutdown -- "We've wasted the last two years" -- The purge -- Epilogue.