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Chain Migration
June 15, 2018
Trump Blows Up ‘Compromise’ House Immigration Bill The president has now positioned himself to the right of his hard-core immigration adviser, Stephen Miller, which is difficult to do.
By Ed Kilgore
Feb. 15, 2018
Team Trump Fighting Immigration Compromise Even as a bipartisan bill emerges that might get 60 Senate votes, the administration is opposing it stridently.
By Ed Kilgore
Feb. 2, 2018
The Dispute Dividing the GOP in the Debate Over Immigration Senate Republicans are resisting the House–Trump effort to force restrictions in legal immigration into a deal with Democrats. But maybe not for long.
By Ed Kilgore
Jan. 31, 2018
In SOTU, Trump Tried to Have His ‘Unity’ — and His Nativism, Too Trump vowed to fight for “all Americans” — then suggested that certain Americans are an inherent threat to our “security and future.”
By Eric Levitz
Jan. 29, 2018
How Trump’s Immigration Proposal Could Be Trouble for Democrats Turns out Americans are much more open to restrictions on legal immigration than they are to deporting Dreamers.
By Ed Kilgore
Jan. 25, 2018
Trump’s Surprise Immigration Proposal The White House presented the outline of a deal — amnesty for Dreamers, but big asks — that might just make everyone mad.
By Ed Kilgore
Jan. 25, 2018
5 Reasons an Immigration Deal Will Be Crazy Hard to Achieve What might be America’s thorniest domestic policy issue just keeps getting more complicated.
By Ed Kilgore
Jan. 18, 2018
Trump’s Plan to End ‘Chain Migration’ Is Neither Populist Nor Nationalist Unless Americans who recently immigrated to the U.S. don’t count as members of the American “people” or “nation.”
By Eric Levitz
Jan. 2, 2018
Why a Government Shutdown Is Looming Again in January Another month of GOP rule, another month of stressful and arbitrary deadlines.
By Ed Kilgore
