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April 19, 2018 The Trump administration failed to study immigration vetting. So I did. David Bier, The Washington Post Read More April 18, 2018 Fixing the 'Involuntary Housewife Visa' Shikha Dalmia, The New York Times Read More April 16, 2018 On refugees, the Trump administration is competent and malevolent David Miliband, The Washington Post Read More April 6, 2018 These are the groups most likely to stop participating in the US census William H. Frey, Brookings Read More April 1, 2018 Better Democracy Promotion through Immigration Margaret E. Peters & Michael K. Miller, Lawfare Read More April 1, 2018 Five Ways Trump is Restricting Immigration Rafael Bernal, The Hill Read More March 30, 2018 Trump's Census policy could boomerang and hurt red states as well as blue states Robert Shapiro, Brookings Read More March 27, 2018 Why the 2020 census shouldn't ask about your citizenship status Jennifer Van Hook, The Conversation Read More March 20, 2018 'Chain Migration' Used to Be a Benign Term. Not Anymore Stephen Kearse, The New York Times Magazine Read More March 19, 2018 How America Fell Behind the World on Immigration Justin Gest, Politico Read More March 17, 2018 Debunking a Myth: The Irish Were Not Slaves, Too Liam Stack, The New York Times Read More March 15, 2018 For Trump, Cruelty Is the Point Julianne Hing, The Nation Read More March 7, 2018 Restricting legal immigration to America won't help our economy Jacqueline Varas, The Hill Read More February 27, 2018 Serpents At The Gates?  Today's Immigrants Are Tomorrow's Entrepreneurs Robb Mandelbaum, Forbes Read More February 27, 2018 One Simple Way Trump Can Get the Economic Growth He Wants...It's more immigration Derek Thompson, The Atlantic Read More February 26, 2018 I ran USCIS. This is a nation of immigrants, no matter what mission statements say Leon Rodriguez, The Washington Post Read More February 22, 2018 Trump wants to cut immigration and foreign aid. Here's how they're connected Sarah Bermeo & David Leblang, The Washington Post Read More February 22, 2018 New U.S. Immigrants Are as Educated as New Canadian Immigrants David Bier, CATO Read More February 22, 2018 Why the 2020 census shouldn't ask about your citizenship status Jennifer Van Hook, The Conversation Read More February 21, 2018 Immigration Curbs Will Weaken Social Security Howard Gleckman, Forbes Read More February 12, 2018 Right Now, 'Merit-Based' Just Means Fewer Immigrants Stuart Anderson, Forbes Read More February 9, 2018 The White House's weekly 'immigrant crime' tallly includes non-crimes and nonimmigrants Phillip Bump, The Washington Post Read More February 4, 2018 'Chain Migration' doesn't work the way Trump tells you it does David Scott Fitzgerald, The Hill Read More February 4, 2018 Trump's talk dehumanizes immigrants Michael Gerson, Albany Times Union Read More February 3, 2018 The Necessary Immigration Debate Ross Douthat, The New York Times Read More February 2, 2018 How Immigration Became So Controversial Derek Thompson, The Atlantic Read More January 31, 2018 We've weaponized immigration rhetoric, from chain migration to Dreamers Leo R. Chavez, Los Angeles Times Read More January 30, 2018 The myth of America's immigration problem Ryan Cooper, The Week Read More January 30, 2018 A US immigration history of white supremacy and ableism Kristin Garrity Sekerci & Azza Altiraifi, Al Jazeera Read More January 30, 2018 Trump's immigration policies are 'economic poison' that will cost taxpayers billions James Boland & Tom Perez, CNBC Read More January 29, 2018 The East Germans of the 21st Century David Brooks, The New York Times Read More January 29, 2018 Our system of family-based immigration works for America Judy Chu & Linda Sanchez, The Hill Read More January 23, 2018 Spanish use is steady or dropping in US despite high Latino immigration Phillip M. Carter, The Conversation Read More January 15, 2018 Know-Nothings for the 21st Century Paul Krugman, The New York Times Read More January 13, 2018 Curbing immigration means curbing job creation John Arensmeyer, The Hill Read More January 8, 2018 Trump's crackdown on legal immigration is huring America Anastasia Tonello, Fox News Read More January 8, 2018 A Counterproductive Approach to a Broken Immigration System Michael Shifter & Ben Raderstorg, The New York Times Read More January 2, 2018 Here's What To Expect On Immigration In 2018 Stuart Anderson, Forbes Read More January 2, 2018 On immigration, Trump is positioned to do what Obama and Bush couldn't Ali Noorani, USA Today Read More December 21, 2017 Trump's "soft" ethnic cleansing: Immigrants as human garbage Chauncey Devega, Salon Read More December 14, 2017 Congress must act on the 'dreamers' Tim Cook & Charles Koch, The Washington Post Read More December 7, 2017 The Dream Act could bring the rule of law back to immigration policy Hiroshi Motomura, Los Angeles Times Read More December 6, 2017 The fraudulent case for 'Kate's wall' Steve Chapmen, Chicago Tribune Read More December 3, 2017 A Guide For Future Immigrant Entrepreneurs Stuart Anderson, Forbes Read More November 24, 2017 Immigration reform won't stop ISIS Robert A. Pape, The Boston Globe  Read More November 22, 2017 DACA recipients saw their mental health improve. Now, advocates fear its end will have the opposite effect Tiziana Rinaldi, PRI Read More November 11, 2017 Trump immigrant rhetoric relies on statistical outliers Abigail R. Hall & Michael Coon, Mercury News Read More November 8, 2017 The Alt-right's favorite academic Shikha Dalmia, The Week 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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