Source: NEWS & OBSERVER, 11/20/18


On immigration, a vast area of potential policy compromise lies between the extremes of nativist restriction and open borders. For the time being, however, politicians determined to exploit the emotions that those two positions arouse dominate the debate. President Trump’s vulgar demonization of unauthorized immigrants, coupled with his proposals to slash legal immigration, defines the morally and economically dubious right end of the spectrum. 

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