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Catherine Rampell: The real hoax about the border crisis

Not the family separations, the babies alone in cages, the drugged immigrant children, the stolen toddlers too traumatized to speak, the wailing children whom Ann Coulter slanders as “child actors.”

The hoax is the premise that President Trump’s administration has invented to rationalize such crimes against humanity: his narrative that America has been “infest[ed]” with hordes of crime-committing, culture-diluting, job-stealing, tax-shirking, benefits-draining “aliens.”

No part of that description is remotely true. Yet the Trump administration seems to have successfully shifted the national dialogue away from ”Do we have a border immigration problem?” to “What’s the right way to fix our border immigration problem?