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Max Boot: Xenophobic hysteria from the commander in chief

That, roughly, is the message that President Donald Trump conveyed this week with his incessant tweeting — hysterical, cowardly, inhumane and deranged in equal parts — about the “caravan” of Central American migrants making their way through Mexico toward the United States.

Alerted by those crack intelligence analysts at “Fox & Friends,” Trump began hyperventilating on Easter Sunday. Showing no sign of Christian charity or brotherly love, he wrote: “Border Patrol Agents are not allowed to properly do their job at the Border because of ridiculous liberal (Democrat) laws like Catch & Release. Getting more dangerous. ‘Caravans’ coming.