Trump has played on the fear of foreigners from the time he began his election campaign, when he claimed Mexico was sending rapists into the US, right through to his first speech to Congress, in which he blamed immigrants for everything wrong under the sun, announcing a list, to be published weekly, of crimes committed by immigrants. His administration is desperate to equate immigrants with crime. All this, despite decades of irrefutable evidence that immigrants, with or without papers, are less likely to commit crimes than native-born Americans.
