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September 24, 2018 Trump is proposing a regulation that could change the face of legal immigration -- by restricting low-income immigrants Dara Lind, Vox Read More September 16, 2018 Our policies on immigration should be forward-thinking Ruth Ellen Wasem, The Hill Read More September 12, 2018 Repeating anti-immigrant screeds doesn't make them true Jennifer Rubin, The Washington Post Read More September 3, 2018 Immigrants, Fearing Trump Crackdown, Drop Out of Nutrition Programs Helene Bottemiller Evich, Politico Read More August 31, 2018 Dean of Duke's Business School: Trump's Immigration Policy Could Make the U.S. an 'Economic Dinosaur' John Byrne, Forbes Read More August 30, 2018 Who's Afraid of a White Minority? Thomas B. Edsall, The New York Times Read More August 29, 2018 Honor bipartisan legacy of John McCain with immigration reform Matthew Soerens, The Hill Read More August, 2018 Through the Back Door: Remaking the Immigration System via the Expected "Public Charge" Rule Jeanne Batalova, Michael Fix, & Mark Greenberg, MPI Commentary Read More August 20, 2018 The Immigrant Grandparents America Needs Stacy Torres & Xuemei Cao, The New York Times Read More August 15, 2018 How Trump Radicalized ICE Franklin Foer, The Atlantic Magazine Read More August 14, 2018 Family Separation Isn't New: U.S. immigration policy has traumatized migrant children and parents for nearly a century Natalie Escobar, The Atlantic Read More August 13, 2018 Stephen Miller is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I'm His Uncle. David S. Glosser, Politico Read More August 10, 2018 Trump's New War on Immigrants Masha Gessen, The New Yorker Read More August 6, 2018 Anti-immigration, like pro-immigration, is a legitimate political position Yuval Noah Harari, The Economist Read More August 2, 2018 Neil Sedaka's 1975 song revived for anti-immigrant era Robert Morrison, The Conversation Read More August 1, 2018 Why baby boomers need immigrants to fund their retirement Alexia Fernandez Campbell, Vox Read More July 31, 2018 Forget the wall already, it's time for the U.S. to have open borders Jeffrey Miron, USA Today Read More July 27, 2018 Trump's Immigration Trap Christopher R. Hill, Project Syndicate Read More July 24, 2018 Watch What Happens When You Push Away Skilled Immigrants Noah Smith, Bloomberg Read More July 20, 2018 Those who deny birthright citizenship get the Constitution wrong Elizabeth Wydra, The Washington Post Read More July 14, 2018 We Need to Offer More than Asylum Roberto Suro, The New York Times Read More July 11, 2018 How cities help immigrants feel at home: 4 charts Ernesto Castaneda, The Conversation Read More July 11, 2018 The travel ban in numbers: Why families and refugees lose big Raquel Aldana, The Conversation Read More July 10, 2018 Racial resentment is the biggest predictor of immigration attitudes, study finds Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post Read More July 2, 2018 For Democrats, Immigration Is a Political Problem Without a Policy Solution Eric Levitz, New York Read More June 27, 2018 Don't Feed the Troll in the Oval Office Thomas B. Edsall, The New York Times Read More June 27, 2018 There is No Immigration Crisis Peter Beinart, The Atlantic Read More June 26, 2018 Violence drives immigration from Central America Sarah Bermeo, Brookings Read More June 26, 2018 GOP increasingly opposes legal --not just illegal -- immigration Ronald Brownstein, CNN Read More June 25, 2018 Why care about undocumented immigrants? For one thing, they've become vital to key sectors of the US economy Mary Jo Dudley, The Conversation Read More June 21, 2018 Return of the Blood Libel Paul Krugman, The New York Times Read More June 21, 2019 Our Real Immigration Problem Bret Stephens, The New York Times Read More June 18, 2018 The Rise of the Amnesty Thugs David Brooks, The New York Times Read More June 14, 2018 How Much Can Democrats Count on Suburban Liberals? Thomas B. Edsall, The New York Times Read More June 4, 2018 The Long History of Child-Snatching Tera W. Hunter, The New York Times Read More June 1-7, 2018 How to convince skeptics of the value of immigration? Philippe Legrain, The Economist Read More June 1, 2018 Another cruel and dehumanizing presidential tirade on immigration Vicki Gass, Oxfam America Read More

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SPEAKING OF IMMIGRANT POLICY

"White nationalism is in many ways a mirror image of radical Islamism. Both share a nostalgic obsession with a purist form of identity: for one, a medieval Islamic state; for the other, a white nation unpolluted by immigrant blood. If the influence of white nationalists continues to grow, they will eventually seek to trample the rights of immigrants and minorities and dismiss courts and constitutions as anti-democratic because they don't reflect the supposed preferences of 'the people.' Their rise threatens to transform countries that we once thought of as icons of liberalism into democracies only in name." Sashan Polakow-Suransky, "White Nationalism is Destroying the West, The New York Times, Oct. 12, 2017. Read More

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