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Trump was too busy manufacturing panic about imaginary caravans to warn Americans about COVID-19
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/caravan-white-supremacist-campaign-trump/It took Donald Trump approximately 26 minutes to get to the apocalyptic, scare-portion of his State of the Union address on Tuesday night—and he did it by turning to his favorite bogeyman.
“As we speak,” he warned, “large, organized caravans are on the march to the United States. We have just heard that Mexican cities, in order to remove the illegal immigrants from their communities, are getting trucks and buses to bring them up to our country in areas where there is little border protection.” Should these invaders succeed, he cautioned, working-class Americans would “pay the price” with “reduced jobs, lower wages, overburdened schools, hospitals that are so crowded you can’t get in, increased crime, and a depleted social safety net.” He announced that the government would soon be sending“another 3,750 troops to our southern border to prepare for this tremendous onslaught.”