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6 - The Immigration Backlash in the States

from Part III - Immigration’s Rising Impact on American Democracy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2020

Zoltan L. Hajnal
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego
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Summary

African Americans are the biggest losers in American democracy. That is the bottom line for much of what I have written so far in these pages. That conclusion is correct, but it is also incomplete. Blacks are not the only losers in American democracy. Latinos and other immigrants are also regularly a target of our politics and our policy, as evidenced by Trump during his campaign (calling Mexicans rapists, and promising to build a wall on the Mexican border) and during his presidency (deciding to rescind DACA, and declaring a national emergency to move forward on the border wall in the face of congressional opposition). But the phenomenon is much broader than Trump and the presidential political arena. Anxiety about immigration is becoming more and more central to American politics. As I have already noted, one sign of that broad White backlash is the defection of so many Whites to the Republican Party. But other signs are surfacing. They have been “invisible” largely because my focus until this point has been on the national policy arena – which is certainly worthy of attention, but perhaps not the most visible political arena in which an anti-immigrant backlash may be visible.

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Dangerously Divided
How Race and Class Shape Winning and Losing in American Politics
, pp. 175 - 198
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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