FiveThirtyEight on some key immigration numbers: “More than 2 million of the nation’s roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants live in just two metropolitan areas, New York and Los Angeles … Most of the remaining 9 million undocumented immigrants are concentrated in large urban areas that likewise voted for Clinton over Trump.”

+ I’ve been waiting for someone to cover this reality about immigration. And it’s not limited to this issue. It’s about regional hatreds, political blood fights, and media manipulation. And it’s about the failure of the Internet’s early promise. Somehow – with more tools to connect than ever before – we made our lives less diverse; racially, politically, and culturally; each of us left to sink in the quicksand that lines the thickening walls of our silos of homogeneity. In short: This is Why You Hate Me.

+ Lost in all the hubbub around the travel ban is the fact that the rules around deportations have also changed. Just ask Guadalupe García de Rayos.

+ “As for his promises about cracking down on illegal immigrants, many assumed Mr. Trump’s pledges were mostly just talk.” From the NYT: California Farmers Backed Trump, but Now Fear Losing Field Workers.

+ The new Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, was one of the earliest supporters of Trump’s ban.

+ The American battle over immigrations is, sadly, the rule not the exception.