Anti-immigrant politics are a symptom of state failure and identity-based resentment

The past few months of anti-immigrant (with “illegal” added as an afterthought adjective) actions are the latest expression of a political tendency across party lines, ideological identities and class positions. It is a tendency that consistently offers the politics of resentment and exclusion as a substitute for the harder, slower work of nation-building.

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