scapegoats

Progressive ideas, as usual, will be convenient scapegoats for the failures of Democratic Party elites.

Again, though, blaming Haitians for American problems is a mere revival of an old trend, with a relatively small population of Haitian immigrants serving as scapegoats for problems that far outweigh the power that Haitian immigrants have.

“The department is creating scapegoats, and I stand by the evidence will absolutely show that at the first instance of any potential issue, Garza reported this up the chain and then was told the bureau is on it, and he’s done with anything that he needed to do,” McNicholas said.

Sitting later in her snug farm kitchen, Lenaerts railed against imports of cheaper, sub-standard foreign food goods, against the huge mark-ups that distributors and middlemen impose on her produce, and against the sense that farmers are too often left as scapegoats for all climate-related issues.

This is in keeping with a long-standing tendency to make immigrants scapegoats for a variety of social problems, including alcoholism and disease.