Donald Trump's campaign shared an allegedly racist meme on social media suggesting that Kamala Harris would flood American neighborhoods with migrants.
The Trump War Room, which is the campaign's official X account, posted side-by-side photos of a tidy suburban neighborhood with an American flag hanging from the front porch of one home and no people in the frame contrasted with a 2023 Getty photo showing a throng of recently arrived migrants sitting outside a New York City hotel that now serves as an immigration intake center.
"There was another message," said CNN's Kasie Hunt, quoting from that tweet: "Quote, 'import the third world, become the third world' ... There's a lot there. Obviously it's impossible to miss."
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Civil rights activist Maya Wiley agreed, saying the post was clearly intended to inflame racist hate.
"Look, there's just a lot of racism there," Wiley said. "I mean, we just have to call it what it is it is – offensive. I think so many of us remember the Donald Trump who called Mexicans criminals literally as a group, not about any individual conduct of any individual person questioned, and was reportedly talking and calling Haiti and African countries expletive hole countries. I won't say it on CNN, but we all know the reference."
The second photo shows dozens of migrants – all of them Black or Latino men – and Wiley said the choice of that photo makes the campaign's intention clear.
"I mean, this is a long-standing racializing immigration," Wiley said. "First of all, immigrants come from all over the world. There are European immigrants in this country who didn't come with documentation, [but] all he talks about are people of color and what he does and what he did in that was simply doing a Willie Horton on immigrants of color as a group. Now, we have real issues that we should deal with on immigration, but that is not a debate on policy. That's an attack on people."
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