Trump's immigration policy is as misguided and chaotic as all his other policies

Throughout Donald Trump’s first term as president, people around him to came to realize that if their voice was the last one he heard, their preferred position was likely to prevail. It’s easy to understand why. Trump has never been interested in the substance of policymaking, and he’s never had much of a governing vision, so officials learned that when the White House reached a fork in the road, the president tended to agree with whomever he spoke to last. Five months into the Republican’s second term, this dynamic hasn’t changed at all. Last week, White House border czar Tom Homan said the administration would intensify its campaign of targeting undocumented immigrants at U.S. worksites, adding that enforcement operations “are going to massively expand.” A day later, Trump went in the opposite direction, conceding that his mass deportation agenda was hurting farmers and the domestic hospitality industry and vowing “changes.” Soon after, the White House said the administration’s policies wouldn’t change. Soon after that, the administration’s policies did change, and ICE was directed to pause raids and arrests in the agricultural industry and at hotels and restaurants. Four days later, the pause — a reversal of an earlier White House policy — was itself reversed. Trump is just too erratic, chaotic, and misguided to be good for America. Stop enabling the chaos.