Trump’s fantasy that migrants are eating cats proves the meme has prevailed over real politics

Then, a decade ago, the city council crafted a programme to draw in new employers, including food-service firms and logistics companies, an Amazon warehouse and a microchip maker. Thousands of new jobs were created, though most remained poorly paid. The problem now became not too few jobs for the workers, but too few workers for the jobs. And, so, migrants came in to fill the gap, mainly Haitians living legally elsewhere in America.