Border conspiracy theories and anti-migrant vigilantes put everyone at risk
Never mind that many of the women, children and men are escaping violence and economic collapse. It’s an invasion, they insist. Of course, an invasion means war, and war means enemies. But with more people reaching the southern frontier, recent history warns us that right-wing border paranoia runs the risk of escalating yet more anti-migrant vigilantism that threatens both migrants and Americans alike.
In the leadup to the 2018 midterm elections, then President Trump brought anti-migrant hysteria to lethal levels. On top of “unknown Middle Easterners” and “very tough fighters,” he warned, amore militias and vigilante groups packed their bags , loaded their weapons, and headed to the southern frontier, while others took aim at migrants and their advocates in communities around the country.
In October 2018, a white nationalist, operating on the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that Jews orchestrate mass immigration as a plot against the country, stormed
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