Trump declaring he will block immigration in order to fight the "invisible enemy" is yet another attempt to deflect attention from the total chaos created by his administration. Immigrants are not responsible for the federal government's failure to produce tests and PPE.
Immigrants are not responsible for the lack of competent people in the cabinet, or the authoritarian loyalty culture surrounding Trump - which delayed reaction to the virus - or for the president's inconsistent messaging, which confuses people and weakens our national response.
This is a very old, very familiar, dictator's tactic: If you can't solve a real problem, then create a fake problem and declare you have solved that one instead.
These things usually end badly. When Stalin's terrible policies produced food shortages and poverty, he blamed non-existent saboteurs and "enemies of the people," arrested and murdered millions of them.
