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2 verified reports published on November 24, 2018.
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Thanksgiving weekend, Trump still couldn’t resist turning immigration into a live-action grievance machine. The problem was that the harder he pushed, the more he exposed the gap between his talk and the law, and the more the courts made him look like a guy trying to win a shouting match with a gavel.
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A federal judge had already grilled the Justice Department over Trump’s new asylum ban, and advocacy groups were warning the policy was unlawful and dangerous. Trump’s border rhetoric on November 24 only underscored how little patience the administration had for the legal limits on its own crackdown.
Trump used the holiday weekend to threaten a shutdown of the southern border and tout a hard-line migration policy that was already tangled up in legal challenges. The result was another loud, fear-driven escalation that made the administration look more reactive than in control.