President Donald Trump Friday afternoon labeled undocumented immigrants crossing the U.S. Southern border an “invasion” during a ceremony vetoing a resolution blocking his border wall which he promised Mexico would pay for.
Deviating from his written remarks, the President, flanked by the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Patrol agents, and “angel moms,” told reporters, “people hate the word invasion, but that’s what it is.”
As some, including Vox’s Aaron Rupar noted, one of the terror suspects who wrote a lengthy “manifesto” before massacring 49 Muslims in New Zealand less than 24 hours ago, described Muslims the same way.
“For many years I had been hearing and reading of the invasion of France by nonwhites,” the terror suspect wrote, according to Rupar, adding, “once I arrived in France, I found the stories not only to be true, but profoundly understated.”
Journalist and executive Soledad O’Brien made clear what’s happening here:
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