US President Donald Trump’s bigotry is playing to his base which includes working class and lower middle class whites who are terrified of what their future holds for them, says Myles Hoenig, an American political analyst and activist.
Hoenig, a former Green Party candidate for Congress, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Thursday while commenting on Trump’s controversial policy of separating children from immigrant families.
On Wednesday, New York elected representatives, clerics, activists and lawyers accused the Trump administration of deliberately delaying the reunification of migrant families separated at the US-Mexico border.
The coalition of activists called on Trump to abolish the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), a detention center in Harlem where around 250 migrant children have been housed without their parents being informed.
Some 2,300 children were separated from their families as a…