Those who preach hate should not be surprised when people commit hateful acts.
It has been a dreadful week on the issue of immigration. On Monday, Donald Trump released his long-awaited immigration "plan" which put his bigotry and hateful rhetoric into policy. His agenda of mass deportation, a massive wall, and the end of birthright citizenship hits many of the hallmarks of bad policy-making: completely impractical, prohibitively expensive, widely unpopular, doomed to fail, and deeply inconsistent with our values as a nation.
Yet once again--with a few exceptions, like Marco Rubio--the other Republican presidential candidates rushed to embrace Trump's latest salvo: the proposed evisceration of the 14th amendment. Even Jeb Bush, who does not support ending birthright citizenship, echoed Trump's use of the heinous and despicable term, "anchor babies." Calling millions of U.S. citizens a term universally viewed as offensive by the Latino community does not bode well for Republican electoral prospects.
And the most disturbing incident of the week was the horrific beating of a Latino homeless man in Boston, who was innocently sleeping near a train station. The two brothers charged in the crime told police that their attack was motivated by their agreement with Donald Trump that "illegals have to go."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/janet-murguia/trumpification-of-republi_b_8025132.html