A central message of President Trump’s insurgent candidacy in 2016 boiled down to this: Millions of Americans are losers — economically, culturally and even demographically. Perhaps no group needed less convincing of this proposition than white evangelical Christians, who have long felt embattled. “Make America Great Again” was the perfect […] Read more »
How Stephen Miller Rode an Anti-Immigration Wave to the White House
When historians try to explain how opponents of immigration captured the Republican Party, they may turn to the spring of 2007, when President George W. Bush threw his waning powers behind a legalization plan and conservative populists buried it in scorn. Mr. Bush was so taken aback, he said he […] Read more »
Why a Banking Heiress Spent Her Fortune on Keeping Immigrants Out
She was an heiress without a cause — an indifferent student, an unhappy young bride, a miscast socialite. Her most enduring passion was for birds. But Cordelia Scaife May eventually found her life’s purpose: curbing what she perceived as the lethal threat of overpopulation by trying to shut America’s doors […] Read more »
It’s the mainstream anti-immigration rhetoric, not the extreme, that’s shaping American politics
… In an interview on NPR, the administration’s immigration chief, Ken Cuccinelli, offered a reworking of the poem that sits at the base of the Statue of Liberty: “Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public […] Read more »
New polls identify fault lines inside the GOP over Trump’s immigration agenda and treatment of asylum seekers
President Trump is building his reelection campaign around the same brand of nativism that energized tens of millions of aggrieved whites and got him elected in 2016. Because of the verities of the electoral college, there is a body of evidence that suggests doubling down on an agenda of exclusion […] Read more »
Support for Allowing Border Refugees Into U.S. Edges Up
Americans are slightly more likely now (57%) than in December of last year (51%) to support allowing refugees from Central America into the U.S. … Support for allowing Central American refugees entry is now higher than Gallup has found for most refugee cases it has polled on historically, including Syrian […] Read more »