Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to give a speech Sunday in Texas near the US-Mexico border as he escalates his anti-immigrant rhetoric and campaigns on hard-line immigration policy proposals.

The front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination will appear alongside Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who is expected to endorse Trump at the event. The trip is being dubbed as an official state visit, and both Trump and Abbott are expected to discuss plans for curbing illegal immigration.

Trump has been ramping up his rhetoric on the campaign trail, promising to conduct the “largest domestic deportation operation in American history” if he wins the White House next year. He has said that undocumented immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country” in comments that echoed White supremacist rhetoric and has compared migrants who come to the US to the fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter.

  • @Additional_Prune
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    21 year ago

    Ages ago, I read a Joseph Wambaugh book about a group of cops tasked with law enforcement at the border. It made fun of people who travel to the border to step in some coyote shit and become instant border issue experts. I remember that every time some politician or Elon travels to the border to become an instant border issue expert.

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21508.Lines_and_Shadows