Trump's racist framing of immigration issues appeals to his base — and it won't change any time soon

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• President Donald Trump regularly doles out aggressive rhetoric against Latin Americans, Chinese, and others living in what he has called "s---hole countries."
• His thinly-veiled racist rhetoric frames illegal immigrants as dangerous criminals — although this doesn't line up with available crime data — is often supported by his base.
• The only "others" Trump doesn’t discriminate against are authoritarian leaders. 

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Standing in front of "angel families"– the PR-engineered moniker given to these unfortunate folks – Trump railed against his critics by highlighting the "death and destruction caused by people that shouldn't be here".

It was the most dramatic iteration yet of a familiar production: the framing of illegal immigrants from Latin America as dangerous criminals. It was also, as usual, a performance at odds with all available crime data, and that's why Trump will only deliver anecdotes instead of numbers in his long-running campaign to portray Latinos as criminals.

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