At the press conference to announce his run for president last year, Donald Trump referred to Mexican immigrants as 鈥渄rug dealers, criminals, rapists鈥 who must be stopped by 鈥渂uilding a wall鈥.
Since taking office, Trump has continued to reiterate that message through policy initiatives designed to further degrade the quality of life for undocumented workers and their families. The overtly racist targeting of migrant and immigrant people by Trump has excited the far-right, and emboldened their efforts to organise, mobilise on a national scale, and terrorise working class communities of colour.聽
But Trump and a re-energised far right did not appear in a vacuum.
