Allies in name only? Latino-only leadership on DACA may trigger implicit racial biases among White liberals

Even before Attorney General Jeff Sessions officially announced the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, activists began mobilizing. …

Despite past failure of Congress to pass immigration reform, some signals out of Washington suggest the possibility for a bipartisan solution. Whether Congress will act likely depends on intense pressure from their constituents – the same pressure that doomed Republican efforts to repeal the ACA and stalled the Muslim Ban. But our research raises questions about whether that outrage will materialize. CONT.

Sergio Garcia-Rios, Kassra Oskooii & Hannah Walker, LSE USAPP