Now they’re going after Americans who are also citizens of another country—like me, and Melania and Barron Trump.
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On Immigration, Stephen Miller Is no Calvin Coolidge
Nativists extol the 30th president for closing the golden door. But he never broadly disparaged immigrants and often praised diversity.
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Why Ron DeSantis is Talking About an Immigrant “Invasion”
The Florida governor is promoting a crank and dangerous theory about states having their own border control policies.
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It’s the Respect (and Good Policies), Stupid
Growing gaps in economic opportunity between successful urban regions and less successful industrial and rural hinterlands is a well-known problem. Such inequality fuels the fires of the polarizing populism and anti-democratic politics in the U.S. and Europe. The underlying cause of heartland voters’ alienation, unease, and resentment, as we’ve demonstrated elsewhere, is the real and perceived loss […]
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The Nativist Response to COVID-19
We are about to face the heart of the challenge: anti-globalist populism.
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A Rational Immigration Debate Can’t Be Grounded in Nativism
The United States went down that road at the beginning of the 20th century.
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The Nativist Attempt to Delay the Browning of America
Trump’s proposed changes to legal immigration would delay, not prevent, white Americans from becoming a minority.
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The Story of an Erratic President and His Nativist Chief of Staff
Trump rejected the bipartisan DACA deal on the advice of John Kelly.
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What Can Washington Learn from Latino Voters?
The media makes a lot of assumptions about how Latino voters are reacting to Trump without much actual data.
