from crossing the border

By America-Today August 20, 2025

Donald Trump’s immigration policies are based on hatred of foreigners. He uses

 the word “invasion” to describe the influx of migrants and “aliens” for noncitizens;

sealed the Southern border; and eroded the right to seek asylum in the U.S. 

The president’s attitude goes deeper than policy.

He referred to undocumented immigrants as “animals” who are “poisoning the blood

 of our country ”during the 2024 presidential election. 

 Before Trump was elected president in 2016, he claimed Indiana-born federal judge

Gonzalo Curiel couldn’t be impartial because he was “Mexican.”

Three people I met in a single day recently illustrated the fundamentally anti-American, 

reckless and racist nature of Trump’s attitude and policies toward immigrants.

Toward the end of the day, I shopped at a North Side grocery and cash transfer storefront

housed in a ramshackle space that would otherwise be vacant. 

The Filipino American owner said her 20-year-old business has seen a marked

drop-off in traffic since January, 

 when the president took office, because her customer base fears federal

 immigration policies.