Phil Thomas, June 26, 2021 An unprotected border is an "attractive nuisance" like an an old-style refrigerator with the door still on, or an unfenced swimming pool: children can die—assuming their parents are willing to risk their children's lives. The former president’s concern for the welfare of migrant children struck a dramatically different tone to his usual rhetoric on the subject – and during his speech in Wellington, Ohio, he resurrected one of his favourites from rallies past, an anti-immigration poem called The Snake. Claiming that people had been begging him to read it out, Mr Trump read the poem which describes a woman taking a sick snake into her home and nursing it back to health, only for it to bite her, saying: “You knew what I was when you took me in.”