In comments made immediately after the April 22 incident — and in a subsequent interview with CSNBayArea.com — Braden stoked the issue.
The Republican party sought to stoke the issue further on Monday, using video of Mr. Booker's "Meet the Press" comments to raise money with an e-mail that says, "I Stand With Cory".
Democrats also worked to stoke the issue with a new advertisement by a Texas group that featured a former lieutenant colonel, Bob Mintz, who said he never saw Mr. Bush in the period he transferred from the Texas Air National Guard to the Alabama Air National Guard.
If the latest antics of Senators Vitter and Bennett are any indication, no cost is too high when it comes to stoking the immigration issue for an unquenchable hard-line base.
But isn't there a danger that by stoking this issue in the pages of the Sun or on the airwaves, Gaunt could give succour to the BNP? "Well, yes sometimes I probably do, because I'm right on the tightrope.
Sources in London believe the Madrid government is stoking up the issue as a distraction from its political travails, which include accusations of corruption and the continuing pain of austerity measures.
By his two tweets, the president signaled that for a third straight season, he would stoke the divisive issue he first fanned as a candidate just before the 2016 election.
The issues now stoking the conservative populism that has taken over the Republican Party — political correctness, affirmative action, the flight of blue-collar jobs overseas, illegal immigration and government bloat — simmered in California for decades before Mr. Trump rode them to the White House.
"I think the measures taken by the government have been quite moderate and actually I think it is some of these European politicians - Ms Reding, her colleague Mr [Laszlo] Andor (European employment commissioner), [and] the Polish prime minister and foreign minister, who seem to have been stoking this issue up," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
Mrs. Clinton continually linked the two issues, accusing Iran of stoking the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians as a way of deflecting attention from its nuclear activities.
