Excuse me but our system locks people out of permanent resident status, itâs not a matter of not wanting to pay fees
Reminded of how people all became obsessed with âmessagingâ and arguing over the pros and cons of âdefund the policeâ as purely a messaging play. Everyone a pundit and tactician.
All the data in the world about how ridiculously good immigration is for the US is not winning against the basest blood and soil nationalism what the fuck
There is a long history of casting immigrants as âtakersâ and I guess if you ignore how the economy works, how housing policy works, how the construction industry works, you can arrive at âimmigrants need housing and therefore must be taking it from youâ but itâs not easy to get there
What will Kamala Harris do to give real Americans some living room???
Great thread, I also think my second book is about how John Tanton provided a policy and political language for doing precisely what Trump is doing with âimmigrationâ and narrowing the terrain of debate such that dems support that project
If you treat 'immigration' as policy rather than about a claim to whom America belongs, *you're playing the wrong game.* Immigration is the core of a politics oriented around friends & enemies. But Dems are treating it as if it admits of compromise, like any other policy in a pluralist politics.
I find this book useful to think with https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=12123
Race is a known fictionâthere is no genetic marker that indicates someone's raceâyet the social stigma of race endures. In the United States, ethnicity is often positioned as a counterweight to race, ...
So the people in charge seem to be betting on an unthinkable escalation of violence in American life for the foreseeable future