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Bloomberg
Donald Trump’s family separation policy is continuing to create havoc for his administration, and ramped-up rhetoric from the president won’t help.
The White House has struggled to display a unified response to a self-imposed crisis that appears likely to dominate the national agenda for a third straight week. June 24 offered a fresh signal that immigration would continue to overshadow other issues as Republicans gear up for a tough midterm election in November.
Trump ratcheted up his demands on immigration, saying that people who “invade†the US illegally should be deported immediately without trial or other normal judicial processes.
“We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country,’’ Trump said. “When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, bring them back to where to came from. Our system is a mockery to good immigration policy and Law and Order.’’
Deportation Plan
Trump’s proposal to enact extra-judicial deportations, aimed squarely at his most nativist supporters, is a potential violation of the Constitution with no clear backing in Congress. His hardline positions on immigration have flummoxed Republican congressional leaders, who had hoped to focus midterm voters on the strong economy and the 2017 tax law that they contend undergirds it.
Asked on NBC’s “Meet the Press’’ if Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric makes his job harder, Republican Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma responded, “it does.’’
The vast majority of Americans oppose Trump’s family separation policy, which he reversed in an executive order last week.
Seventy-two percent were against in a CBS News poll, though Republicans were split about evenly.
But Trump’s strongest backers — whom Trump hopes to motivate to vote in fall congressional elections during which he won’t be on the ballot — are dramatically more favourable towards the separation policy, punishment for illegal entrants, and more suspicious that most would-be immigrants are criminals, according to the poll.