A majority of Americans (62%) continue to say the country’s openness to people from around the world is “essential to who we are as a nation.” But the share expressing this view is 6 percentage points lower than it was in September – a result of a shift in opinion […] Read more »
Unauthorized immigrants face public backlash in Mexico, survey finds
Mexicans are deeply frustrated with immigrants after a year of heightened migration from Central America through the country, according to a survey conducted by The Washington Post and Mexico’s Reforma newspaper. More than 6 in 10 Mexicans say migrants are a burden on their country because they take jobs and […] Read more »
Polls show sour views of race relations in Trump’s America
Even before President Donald Trump’s racist tweets toward four Democratic congresswomen of color, Americans considered race relations in the United States to be generally bad — and said that Trump has been making them worse. On Sunday, Trump tweeted that the congresswomen should go back to the “broken and crime […] Read more »
Most moderate GOP voices on immigration were wiped out in the 2018 Democratic wave
Following President Donald Trump’s racist tweets this weekend telling “‘Progressive’ Democrat Congresswomen [to…] go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,” only a small number of Republican members of Congress have been willing to critique Trump. … We can peg Republican silence […] Read more »
The strategy of Donald Trump’s racism
As you might imagine, I have some pretty serious disagreements with “the squad” on issues of real importance (at least to me). But no policy differences could justify Donald Trump’s disgusting, racist, go-back-where-you-came-from diatribe. Indeed, President Trump initially cited no issue differences. It was straight out, inexcusable bigotry and xenophobia. […] Read more »
It’s not just Trump. Many whites view people of color as less American.
President Trump is facing a strong backlash for telling four progressive Democratic congresswomen to “go back” to where they “originally came from.” … As I noted in an earlier Monkey Cage post, within the social-science literature on intergroup relations, Jim Sidanius and Felicia Pratto’s theory of social dominance argues that […] Read more »