We just published a timeline on the last couple weeks of President Donald Trump’s attacks against immigrants and asylum seekers, and the countries from which they came to the southern border. The timeline, showing an escalation of anti-immigration actions from the administration, prompts the question: Why now?
As best as we can tell, the latest wave of xenophobia from the White House came at least in part in response to rising monthly apprehension numbers from the Department of Homeland Security, and media coverage of that rise.