Clarence Page: Immigration is on Americans’ minds. And politicians are seizing the opportunity.

When I saw that Donald Trump take an interest in the horrible murder of a Georgia nursing student, I was swept by a profound sense of having been here before. Back in his 2016 campaign, Trump made a national cause out of the murder of Kate Steinle of San Francisco, allegedly by Jose Ines Garcia-Zarate, a homeless undocumented migrant. The accused killer was later acquitted of murder and manslaughter charges after a 2017 trial in which his defenders argued the death was an accident. This time the victim was Laken(cq) Hope Riley, 22, a Georgia nursing student whose body was […]