Maddow Blog | Why Trump has struggled to quell the MAGA 'civil war' over immigration

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : "I have many H-1B visas on my properties," the president-elect told The New York Post on Saturday.
36% : After days of infighting among his allies, Trump decided to weigh in -- or at least try to.
28% : Indeed, during his 2016 candidacy, Trump called for ending the program altogether.
25% : In other words, as his allies taunt and threaten each other, Trump can't address the schism because he still doesn't yet care enough about governing details and the substance of policymaking.
19% : That's not true: As recently as 2020, Trump suspended H-1B visas, claiming that the program was hurting American workers.
11% : At the top of the GOP ticket, Donald Trump condemned immigrants in unusually ugly terms -- at times, literally echoing Adolf Hitler and accusing immigrants of "poisoning the blood" of the country -- but beneath the surface, there was a conflict that went largely unaddressed.

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