The family separation policy, the “travel ban,” the threat of a government shutdown if Congress doesn’t fund a border wall: Both as candidate and now as president, Donald Trump has consistently made his opposition to immigration the center of his politics.
Of course, he’s not the only politician to do so. For several years now, immigration has been roiling politics all over the world. …
In the U.K. and Australia, citizens with strong nativist sentiments have found a home in radical right minor parties, whereas in the United States, lacking viable minor party options, strongly anti-immigrant voters mostly identify with the Republican Party.
This conclusion comes from a series of studies we conducted in late June and early July in the United States, Britain and Australia. CONT.
Glenn Keffo (Macquarie U.) & Shaun Ratcliff (U. of Sydney), Monkey Cage