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As I’ve argued before, Trump is not merely someone who skirts around the rules now and again; he may well be the single most corrupt major business figure in America. He’s someone who operated https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/23/the-trump-network-sought-to-make-people-rich-but-left-behind-disappointment/ (pyramid schemes) and con jobs like Trump University targeting struggling people, who exploited foreign workers and used illegal labor, who refused to pay small business people he bought goods and services from, who did business with the mafia and kleptocrats from the former Soviet Union, whose “foundation” was allegedly nothing but a https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/06/14/the-trump-foundation-was-one-big-scam-according-to-the-new-york-attorney-general-what-a-shock (scam), and whose properties are for some reason a prime vehicle for Russian oligarchs and mobsters to launder their money.
 


Republicans become deeply offended when you suggest that their party is in the process of adopting a white nationalist agenda, and that many of their voters are motivated by xenophobia. No no, they say, we acknowledge that America is a nation of immigrants; we just want a secure border and all the laws to be enforced. We welcome legal immigrants; it’s illegal immigration we have a problem with.

So much for the idea that Republicans only want to eliminate illegal immigration. Donald Trump — who, let’s not forget, got elected by saying he’d ban Muslims from entering the country and build a wall on our southern border — is following through on his vision, and that of people like Stephen Miller, that America should no longer welcome immigrants, and kick out as many of those who are already here as they can.
 
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