How Trump’s Racist Talk of Immigrant ‘Bad Genes’ Echoes some of the Last Century’s Darkest Ideas about Eugenics

How Trump’s Racist Talk of Immigrant ‘Bad Genes’ Echoes some of the Last Century’s Darkest Ideas about Eugenics

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has repeatedly denounced immigrants who enter the U.S. illegally and the danger he says that poor immigrants of color pose for the U.S. – often using hateful language to make his point. In early October 2024, Trump took his comments a step further when he questioned immigrants’ faulty genes, saying without support […]