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Deconstructed

From Caravans to Cages: Why Trump Bashes Migrants

Deconstructed

The Intercept

News

4.84.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

If the media is to be believed, the United States is about to be overrun by a horde of terrorists and criminals from Central America. It’s a distraction from what has really been an immigration crisis at the border: the so-called separation of migrant children from their parents by the Trump administration. According to the latest official numbers from the Trump administration, at least 66 children are still “separated” from their families and being held in detention centers. Mexican-American journalist Jorge Ramos joins Mehdi Hasan to discuss this story of theft, child abuse, and racism.

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0:00.0

What's happening right now as a large group of people they call it a caravan?

0:09.1

That is an assault on our country. I think the Democrats had something to do with it and now they're saying I think we made a big mistake.

0:21.6

I'm Mayor the Hassan. Welcome to deconstructed. Another week another so-called immigration crisis.

0:27.1

The midterms around the corner and the racist and nativist around the force. I'll speak to the legendary Mexican American journalist and Trump's bet noir Jorge Ramos.

0:36.0

I've been in this country for 35 years and I've never seen anything like this. We are normalizing racism. We are normalizing cruelty.

0:44.4

So this week on deconstructed, the migrants are coming.

0:48.9

The caravan of Central American migrants continues to swell in numbers.

0:55.8

An army of migrants is literally marching or riding or making their way from Honduras.

1:02.2

From all of them from Central America.

1:05.0

President Trump is calling the caravan a national emergency and he's claiming criminals and unknown middle easterners are mixed in with the crowd.

1:13.6

They could very well be, but there's no proof. There's no proof of anything. There's no proof of anything.

1:19.6

The army of migrants is already assembling at our border. What are we going to do?

1:24.8

If the media is to be believed, the United States is about to be overrun by hordes of terrorists and criminals from Central America.

1:32.6

And we're not just talking about Fox News or Breitbart. We're talking mainstream media organizations.

1:37.9

ABC News calls it the caravan crisis. The Associated Press. Yeah.

1:42.7

AP ran a peace headline, a ragged, growing army of migrants resumes march towards US.

1:50.0

I mean, seriously, an army marching towards the US.

1:54.3

What? To invade and occupy this poor, weak, defenseless, borderless country.

1:59.2

Come on.

2:00.3

This is a quote caravan of innocent men, women and children, unarmed people.

2:05.8

The most vulnerable of the vulnerable refugees, asylum seekers, people fleeing violence and persecution.

2:11.9

And yes, extreme poverty too. They come from countries, by the way, like Honduras,

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