April 01, 2019 "Information Clearing House" - President Trump has stooped to a new low in what has already become a daily descension into the gutter of inhumanity, uncivil discourse and plain meanness. 

During a rally Friday in Michigan, Donald Trump took to mocking the poor and desperate migrants who are coming here from Central America in droves to save their families’ lives. 

Trump also is resorting to a dangerous and foolish threat — closing the southern border — if Mexico doesn’t do more to stem the flow of migrants traveling through Mexico from Central America to the United States.

Both actions — the mockery and the threat to close the border — are further indication that Donald Trump is uninterested in fixing the problems that stem from our broken immigration system.

The president has never taken the issue of immigration seriously. He has never seen it as a problem that needs solving, only a solution for his political problems. He uses immigration as a clarion call to his base — instilling fear, inciting division, bigotry and the politics of resentment — so they will never leave him.  

His childish comments making fun of asylum seekers are meant to shock and awe his adoring fans. But they also betray his immense ignorance over the reality that asylum seekers face, and they demonstrate a malicious streak in which he is willing to use their agony for his own political gain.  

These migrants are human beings. They also are following our laws as they present themselves to immigration authorities to claim asylum.

Trump should walk a mile in their shoes before he makes light of their life-and-death situations and uses them as punch lines in a political speech. You can’t get more unpresidential than that.