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“That’s something some current political leaders don’t want you to realize. They want to demonize them and to scapegoat them.”

“He always finds a distraction,” Padilla said, “and, when all else fails, he goes back to demonizing and scapegoating immigrants. … He creates a crisis to get us all talking about something else.”

Ancient myths are rife with stories of gods sacrificing scapegoats to maintain their rank in the divine order.

Now, as the latest punishment meted out to the Trump administration’s preeminent academic scapegoat shows, it’s our own government posing the threat.

Last year, a case against nine Egyptians was thrown out, amid claims they had been scapegoated by the Greek authorities.