It's not working
by digby
A record-high 75% of Americans, including majorities of all party groups, think immigration is a good thing for the U.S. -- up slightly from 71% last year. Just 19% of the public considers immigration a bad thing.
They have been working on demonizing "illegals" for years. With Trump they expanded it to refugees and kids. (Remember, he said he would refuse entry to a Syrian 5 year old in the campaign....) The big prize is to hit legal immigration.
I suspect people are catching on to their game a little bit here. This is about deportation and barring entry to foreigners in general, particularly those with brown and black skin. Just ask Jeff Sessions. He wrote it all down in 2015. And he told Steve Bannon all about it:
In seven years we'll have the highest percentage of Americans, non-native born, since the founding of the Republic. Some people think we've always had these numbers, and it's not so, it's very unusual, it's a radical change. When the numbers reached about this high in 1924, the president and congress changed the policy, and it slowed down immigration significantly, we then assimilated through the 1965 and created really the solid middle class of America, with assimilated immigrants, and it was good for America. We passed a law that went far beyond what anybody realized in 1965, and we're on a path to surge far past what the situation was in 1924.
Latinos have been here from the beginning. It's the racist white people who need to assimilate..
This doesn't seem to be working that well. 75% of Americans think immigration is a good thing. Because that's the American way.
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