During a roundtable on Sanctuary Cities today, Donald Trump said, referring to undocumented immigrants who have been deported, which includes children and refugees seeking asylum from violence: "These aren't people. These are animals."
President Trump during California #SanctuaryCities Roundtable: "These aren't people. These are animals."
— CSPAN (@cspan) May 16, 2018
Full video here: https://t.co/alyS47LI5V pic.twitter.com/ifXicTHHP0
We have people coming into the country — or trying to come in; we're stopping a lot of 'em. But we're taking people out of the country — you wouldn't believe how bad these people are. These aren't people. These are animals. And we're taking them out of the country at a level and at a rate that's never happened before.He speaks about undocumented immigrants as though they are vermin he's trying to keep from entering his house.
And because of the weak laws, they come in fast, we get 'em, we release 'em, we get 'em again, we bring 'em out — it's crazy.
The dumbest laws, as I said before, the dumbest laws on immigration in the world. So we're gonna take care of it, Margaret. We'll get it done.
Trump's routine dehumanization of undocumented immigrants is what's called eliminationist rhetoric. It's the language that precedes genocides, if decent people don't urgently intervene. https://t.co/M6p3fvyIUz
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) May 16, 2018
Note: This, too, is something on which Mike Pence is willing to abet in his quest for power.
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