donald trump called it an invasion. with less than two weeks left until the iowa caucuses, today trump and desantis published dueling op-eds in the des moines register. both cast immigration as the most pressing problem facing our country. both candidates promised that they and they alone can fix it. now, what both trump and desantis are advancing in these op-eds are neither actual fixes to our country s border issues, nor are they actual immigration policy, but they are the sort of plans you can tell people you have, and they are articulating them to the public. they want to let fewer brown people in. they want immigration to be as painful as possible. none of that addresses the root cause of migration and the actual problems with our immigration system, which are real. but it is a plan, and it is a plan around which republicans are largely unified. this is video from last friday of migrants including children and adults carrying children, attempting to cross a river at the
with less than two weeks to go until the iowa caucus, the republican presidential candidates trailing donald trump are in the hawkeye state trying to move voters. in nikki haley sclase trooez she s trying to cleanup her words after trying to mention slavery in questions about the civil war. this is her answer today. without question slavery was a part of the civil war. it goes without saying in south carolina. we know it. we hear about it in school, where we live. it s just a deep part of south carolina. we know that. i should have said slavery right off the bat. i took that as a given. okay. nikki haley s home state was the birthplace of the secession that sparked the nation s civil war over slavery, so her false framing over that is confusing. it also doesn t square with her actions when she was the governor of that state to remove the confederate battle flag from