The White House lawn was lined with around 100 mug shots of alleged illegal immigrants who have been arrested and the crimes they allegedly committed, as Donald Trump tries to draw attention to his actions during the first 100 days of his second term.
The names and exact locations of the individuals are not on the posters, which line “Pebble Beach,” where television crews typically do live shots in front of the White House—among their alleged crimes are sexual offenses and murder.
I suspect that as Nate Silver says, Trump is doing this sort of thing because he wants to fight about immigration rather than his other, less popular policies - he thinks he has the public support to win on immigration.
Yeah, he might be trying to do that.
He might also be trying to turn his polling on immigration around. All this shady deportation stuff has pushed him underwater on immigration. Americans were majority positive when it was all about slowing crossings, but they’re not down with deporting documented people, deporting people without judicial review, accusing people of gang crimes because they’re brown and have tattoos, or throwing people into gulags.