Border Wars: Inside Trump's Assault on Immigration

Border Wars: Inside Trump's Assault on Immigration

Two New York Times Washington correspondents provide a detailed, â€œfact-based account of what precipitated some of this administrationâ€™s more brazen assaults on immigrationâ€ (The Washington Post) filled with never-before-told stories of this key issue of Donald Trumpâ€™s presidency.

No issue matters more to Donald Trump and his administration than restricting immigration.

Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael D. Shear have covered the Trump administration from its earliest days. In Border Wars, they take us inside the White House to document how Stephen Miller and other anti-immigration officials blocked asylum-seekers and refugees, separated families, threatened deportation, and sought to erode the longstanding bipartisan consensus that immigration and immigrants make positive contributions to America. Their revelation of Trumpâ€™s desire for a border moat filled with alligators made national news.

As the authors reveal, Trump has used immigration to stoke fears (â€œthe caravanâ€), attack Democrats and the courts, and distract from negative news and political difficulties. As he seeks reelection in 2020, Trump has elevated immigration in the imaginations of many Americans into a national crisis.

Border Wars identifies the players behind Trumpâ€™s anti-immigration policies, showing how they planned, stumbled and fought their way toward changes that have further polarized the nation. â€œ[Davis and Shearâ€™s] exquisitely reported Border Wars reveals the shattering horror of the moment, [and] the mercurial unreliability and instability of the presidentâ€ (The New York Times Book Review).
Country USA
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2019-10-08
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2019-10-08
Format	Kindle eBook

Border Wars: Inside Trump's Assault on Immigration

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