Send Out the Marines

“According to polls, Americans strongly agree that immigrants without legal status should be deported if they have been convicted of a violent crime. But support for Mr. Trump’s immigration sweeps begins to erode when people are asked about the much larger group of undocumented immigrants with no police record who have worked and raised families in the United States.” NYT (Gift Article): He Raised Three Marines. His Wife Is American. The U.S. Wants to Deport Him.

+ Why? What’s the point? Some argue that those here illegally are taking away jobs from Americans who want them. The numbers suggest otherwise. Trump Secured the Border, So Where Are the Jobs? “As Mr. Trump likes to remind people, illegal immigration climbed even more dramatically during the Biden administration. Yet black unemployment fell to a new record low on Mr. Biden’s watch. This recent history suggests that there is little connection between the presence of foreigners in the labor force and the job prospects of Americans, including black and Hispanic workers.”

+ “Trump told voters that they could indulge their resentments and still walk away richer and more prosperous. But they can’t. To embrace nativism in a global, connected economic world is to sacrifice prosperity for the sake of exclusion.” NYT (Gift Article): The Trump Fantasy Is Unraveling.