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If there was just one reality about our modern politics that I could magically make the average person understand, it is that the truth is very often not just different from the common perception, but actually the exact opposite of it. There is currently no better example of this than President Donald Trump and the issue of illegal immigration, which he has cynically made the centerpiece of the GOP’s midterm election campaign.The widely-held perception, at least among Republicans, is that Trump, who has talked tough on border issues since the moment he began his presidential campaign more than three years ago, is the greatest thing that has happened in our modern history for curtailing illegal immigration. The reality is that he has actually done very little, if anything, to help deal with the problem. And he has actually ensured that nothing he ever promotes about the issue will actually happen for at least a generation, and probably forever.During the campaign Trump bragged endlessly about how he would build a great wall on our southern border and force Mexico to pay for it. That was always an obvious con intended to manipulate stupid people (it worked!), and of course, two years into his presidency there is no sign that is ever going to happen.
Given how the last migrant caravan back last Spring have all been set loose into the country - I would say this opinion has merit.
