The recent death of West Virginia National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom and the grievous wounding of her colleague, Andrew Wolfe, in Washington, D.C., should have united this country in shared grief. It should have been a moment to honor their service and reaffirm our commitment to preventing tragedies like this from ever happening again. Instead, the Trump administration has seized on their suffering to smear entire communities and advance an agenda untethered from reality, morality or the values Americans claim to hold.

There is nothing more cynical than using the worst day of someone else’s life as political fuel. Yet that is what President Trump and senior advisers like Stephen Miller are doing. They are weaponizing this tragedy not to increase safety, but to justify bans and mass e

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