{"id":32974,"date":"2018-10-22T23:17:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T23:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32974"},"modified":"2018-10-22T23:17:56","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T23:17:56","slug":"middle-easterners-in-the-caravan-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32974","title":{"rendered":"‘Middle Easterners’ in the caravan mix?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald J. “Fearmonger in Chief” Trump is at it again.<\/p>\n

He said the “caravan” of refugees heading for our nation’s southern border contains “criminals” and “unknown Middle Easterners.” Does the president have any evidence of it?<\/p>\n

Of course not! He never produces evidence of anything when he makes these bellicose assertions. It makes his crowds cheer. It fires him up. He speaks the language that his “base” understands and to which it is drawn.<\/p>\n

The unknown Middle East component, of course, harkens back to 9\/11 and the view being promoted by those on the far right that the Middle East is populated by millions of Muslims who “hate America” and will do whatever they can to do harm to Americans.<\/p>\n

So now, according to Trump, they’re slipping into the crowd of Latin American refugees and are heading toward our soft underbelly.<\/p>\n

I wish I had an answer to what we should do when that “caravan” arrives along our Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California borders. I don’t.<\/p>\n

I do not believe the president is helping quell the fear of many Americans by suggesting — without attribution — the notion that the refugees are full of criminals and “Middle Easterners.”<\/p>\n

No. Donald Trump is stoking the fear. That’s what he does. It is how he rolls.<\/p>\n\n

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Donald J. “Fearmonger in Chief” Trump is at it again. He said the “caravan” of refugees heading for our nation’s southern border contains “criminals” and “unknown Middle Easterners.” Does the president have any evidence of it? Of course not! He never produces evidence of anything when he makes these bellicose assertions. It makes his crowds … Continue reading ‘Middle Easterners’ in the caravan mix?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[95,1424,2245,3050,3875],"class_list":["post-32974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-95","tag-donald-trump","tag-immigration","tag-middle-east","tag-refugees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32976,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32974\/revisions\/32976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}