People Are Angry President Trump Used This Word to Describe Undocumented Immigrants

“They don’t care about crime and want illegal immigrants, no matter how bad they may be, to pour into and infest our country, like MS-13,” he wrote, referencing a violent criminal gang based in Central America.

Critics of Trump’s language argued that it was dehumanizing to use a term traditionally used for pests.

.. “Infest.” Trump’s dehumanizing language continues—as it always does—by lumping nonviolent illegal immigrants in with violent gangs.

.. the use of the word “infest” reminds me of how Tutsis were called cockroaches in Rwanda

.. Using words like”pour into” and “infest’ are dehumanizing tactics repeatedly used in history to smear immigrants & refugees, all in attempts to rob them of their humanity. Language matters.

.. Trump’s statement that immigrants will “infest our Country” probably sounds better in the original German.

.. Just a complete fabrication.
And notice that he continues to use words for animals and rodents like “infest” to describe people.

This word was often used in Rwanda during genocide, comparing people to roaches.

.. “Infest” is language used in Nazi propaganda to describe the “infestation” of Jews in Germany, who were compared to rats. Here’s the President of the United States saying illegal immigrants “infest” our country. Keep telling me those Nazi comparisons are unfair.

.. “Infest”
Yeah, he was taken out of context when he called immigrants “animals.” Excellent take there.