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Immigration Tag

2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Cory Booker (NJ) took a page out of rival Robert O'Rourke's book when he went to Mexico to speak with those sent back to Mexico after our government denied them asylum. Booker took it one step further by bringing five female asylum seekers with him back to America.

As his campaign flounders, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Robert O'Rourke did what anyone else would do. He crossed the Rio Grande into Mexico to campaign with asylum seekers. Oh, wait. That does not make sense since those people cannot vote until they become citizens.

The photo of Óscar Martinez and his daughter, who drowned trying to reach the United States shook the world. Many have blamed President Donald Trump and American policies, but El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, elected in February, took the blame. From the BBC:
"People don't flee their homes because they want to, people flee their homes because they feel they have to," he told the BBC in the capital, San Salvador.

British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has sided with U.S. President Donald Trump in his ongoing Twitter spat with London Mayor Sadiq Khan. Hunt said he "150 per cent" agreed with the U.S. President's comments on Khan. Present Trump had shared a tweet by the conservative British columnist Katie Hopkins highlighting rampant knife crime in London. "London needs a new mayor ASAP. Khan is a disaster -- will only get worse!" he commented on the tweet.

Europe's open-doors immigration policy will lead to a European "Islamic caliphate," Italian deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini has warned voters ahead of the upcoming European Union election. "For our children, to leave behind an Islamic caliphate with sharia law in our cities is not something I want to do and I’m going to do everything in my power to avert this sad ending for Europe," he said during a visit to Hungary this week.