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It has now been a week since President-elect Donald Trump won the presidential election. While there is still a great deal of uncertainty surrounding the specifics of President-elect Trump’s immigration policy, new details have emerged post-election that appear to soften his campaign rhetoric and controversial campaign promises related to immigration. […]
From the start of his campaign, no issue was more central to Donald Trump’s appeal than immigration: He launched his run last year with the promise to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, and expanded his pitch to triple the number of ICE agents, end sanctuary cities and suspend […]
The Bracero Program, which drew hundreds of thousands of Mexican laborers to toil in American fields from 1942 to 1964, left a searing memory of injustice. The program has been blamed for depressing farm wages and abusing immigrant workers. So I wasn’t surprised that some critics took a dim view […]
Can anything be done about illegal immigration? Donald J. Trump’s proposal to end illegal immigration — to build a supposedly impregnable wall — is a fake solution. For all intents and purposes, the wall is already there: a fence across large stretches of the southwestern border complemented by drones, sensors […]
