Trump Did OK Until He Talked About "Victims of Immigrant Crime Engagement"

For the most part, President Trump was even keeled and bi-partisan in his address to a Joint Session of Congress.

But this is Donald Trump we're talking about and inevitably he was going revert to form.

President Trump called upon the Department of Homeland Security "to create an office to serve American victims". The organization is to be known as VOICE. That would be the Victims of Immigrant Crime Engagement. Not how the organization makes no distinction between crimes committed by legal and illegal immigrants.

Later, President Trump turned the spotlight to Jemile Shaw, Sr. whose Jemile, Jr. was murdered by a gang member who was an illegal immigrant.

One cannot begin to imagine Shaw's pain. But would Shaw's pain be any less had his son been murdered by an American citizen? Would President Trump have invited him to attend his address had his son been murdered by a black teenager?

I have no objection to deporting illegal aliens who commit murder, rape and other violent crimes.Somehow I doubt a majority of illegal immigrants are violent criminals. But the way President Trump talks he would have you believe that illegal immigrants are synonymous with violent crime. All establishing an entity of "Victims of Immigrant Crime Engagement" does is reinforce this notion.