Does Diversity Really Unite Us?

Article subtitle: 
Citizenship and Immigration
Article author: 
Edward J. Erler
Article publisher: 
Imprimis
Article date: 
Sunday, July 1, 2018
Article category: 
National Issues
Medium
Article Body: 

The following is adapted from a speech delivered on April 11, 2018, at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar in Colorado Springs.

President Trump’s zero-tolerance policy for illegal border crossers has provoked a hysterical reaction from Democrats, establishment Republicans, the progressive-liberal media, Hollywood radicals, and the deep state. What particularly motivated the ire of these Trump-haters was the fact that the zero-tolerance policy would require the separation of parents and children at the border. The hysteria was, of course, completely insincere and fabricated, given that the policy of separating children and parents was nothing new—it had been a policy of the Obama and Bush administrations as well. . .