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If Immigrants Imported Failure, Then They Wouldn’t Be Immigrants

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Immigrants, particularly immigrants from what President Trump has described as “Sthole Countries,” are rejecting those “Stholes.” That’s why they’re immigrants. Yet it’s long been the norm to assume otherwise. Consider 19th century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. Describing existing and would-be Irish immigrants, he thundered about how “They hate our free and fertile isle. […]

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If Border Closure Is Such Great Politics, What Happened On 11/4?

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Deportations and border closures were political losers for President Trump and the Republicans. That’s because voters vote their pocketbooks. More than a few who read this opinion piece’s opening will disagree with its assessment, as will pundits seemingly. Right or left, they seem to monolithically believe that President Biden’s failure to secure the border

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To Empty the U.S.’s Borders, Legalize the Arrival of Workers

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“Up north is where we’ve gotten the money for everything – to build houses, to take care of families, to sow in the fields. If they don’t send money, the town stops.” Those are the words of Rosa Gomez Hernandez, a 37-year-old resident of Mexican town San Bartolome Quialana, and whose ability to live

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