Trump's words about asylum-seekers aren't a lie—they are THE lie, the one that is ripping us apart

Mark Sumner 
Daily Kos Staff
Monday April 08, 2019 · 8:07 AM EDT

It’s long been clear that living with a constant stream of abusive language and ignorant banter has inured American ears to statements that would in past years have been met with outrage. Even so, Donald Trump’s claim that the country is “full,” a position he reiterated on Sunday evening, is the kind of statement that should so raise a cry from every corner that the ringing silence in its wake suggests a nation in a condition for which there is no other term than sin.

America is a nation of immigrants. That is not a static position. That’s not a statement that was made in 1776 and then was quickly followed by a drawing-up of the national gangplank. It’s always been so. It must always be so. Because a nation that is “full,” one that can turn its broad back on asylum-seekers and raise a wall against outsiders, is not the United States of America. It is fundamentally not.

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