According to Fox Business host Lou Dobbs, if the United States doesn’t immediately shut off the flow of immigrants into the country, “millions of Americans” will lose their lives.
Yes, he actually said that.
On his show Friday, Dobbs also called on President Donald Trump to fire Kirstjen Nielsen, HuffPost reports:
“At the start of the broadcast, Dobbs directly called on President Donald Trump to fire Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen after she made an ‘urgent request’ to Congress for help in stopping the agency from experiencing a ‘“system-wide meltdown’ at the southern border.
“Dobbs later blasted Nielsen for her ‘ignorance’ and called the leadership of the U.S. Border Patrol ‘absolute morons.'”
Then came the fear-mongering, with Dobbs declaring:
“They are sitting there waiting for orders, waiting for somebody to hand them a solution? If this is what we have come to, if the quality of people in leadership in DHS from the secretary of the department on down I mean lets, you know, just literally put out welcome wagons. Pile them high because we’re just going to consign tens of thousands perhaps millions of Americans to their deaths.”
A day earlier, Dobbs had called on President Trump to close the U.S.-Mexico border. On Friday morning, Trump did exactly that, following the script like a good puppet as he tweeted out:
The DEMOCRATS have given us the weakest immigration laws anywhere in the World. Mexico has the strongest, & they make more than $100 Billion a year on the U.S. Therefore, CONGRESS MUST CHANGE OUR WEAK IMMIGRATION LAWS NOW, & Mexico must stop illegals from entering the U.S….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 29, 2019
….through their country and our Southern Border. Mexico has for many years made a fortune off of the U.S., far greater than Border Costs. If Mexico doesn’t immediately stop ALL illegal immigration coming into the United States throug our Southern Border, I will be CLOSING…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 29, 2019
….the Border, or large sections of the Border, next week. This would be so easy for Mexico to do, but they just take our money and “talk.” Besides, we lose so much money with them, especially when you add in drug trafficking etc.), that the Border closing would be a good thing!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 29, 2019
Earlier this week, Trump also speculated that perhaps instead of a wall, he should station U.S. troops at the southern border with machine guns as a more effective way of stopping all immigration, telling Fox host Sean Hannity:
“BUT WE DON’T DO LIKE OTHER COUNTRIES! OTHER COUNTRIES STAND THERE WITH MACHINE GUNS READY TO FIRE. WE CAN’T DO THAT AND I WOULDN’T WANT TO DO THAT, OKAY? IT’S A VERY EFFECTIVE WAY OF DOING IT AND I WOULDN’T WANT TO DO IT. WE CAN’T DO IT.”
Instead of this constant drumbeat over immigration, maybe the president should pay attention to issues that could indeed wind up killing millions of Americans such as climate change. But that wouldn’t serve Trump’s larger narrative of fear that he plans to use as he begins his re-election campaign. He will run on lies, hatred, and racism. It worked for him in 2016, so he sees no need to change now.
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