This article capitalizes on Trump’s statement that America is “closed” and “full,” unable to accept illegal immigrants any longer. The statement comes after Trump threatened to close the U.S.-Mexican border completely. In response, Mexico took legal action to close border crossings. The article continues to blame Democrats, often referring to them as “Dems,” and attributes the influx of immigrants to Dems “gaming the system.” The article fails, however, to provide specific examples of these claims. The article also continuously quotes Trump and his statements, saying, “They could stop them at the southern border, their southern border. And you look at what’s happening now. They pulled in fifteen hundred, one thousand five hundred yesterday they brought them back. They pulled in over a thousand the day before. Over a thousand the day before that today I haven’t gotten the number but I mean it’s a lot.”
While the article goes has several of these types of quotes, it fails to provide substantiated support behind Trump’s claims. Rather than providing any statistical evidence as to how America is “full,” the article claims that Trump’s actions are motivated solely by his desire for the safety of the American people, that illegal immigrants are somehow a danger to our way of life. However, Trump does not say that there is any stigma of fear behind his actions, but does say that it is due simply to the lack of space in detention centers. He gives no real reason for why immigrants are not welcome into America except for that detention centers are full.