from Part III - Immigration’s Rising Impact on American Democracy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 January 2020
“They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”
With these now infamous lines about Mexican immigrants, President Trump set in motion his meteoric rise in the 2016 presidential campaign. Before giving that speech, Trump was floundering. Polls placed him near the bottom of the 16-candidate Republican field. But just a month later – after almost non-stop coverage of his immigration remarks – Trump had skyrocketed to first place in the polls.
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