The United States has a highly mixed record on immigration. It likes to claim that it is pro-immigrant, but it is only pro-past immigration. It never really or has been.
What I love about rural America is the anti-immigrant race hatred combined with the desperate reality that the only way the rural economy survives is through immigration. Take rural Wisconsin.
As one LGM reader texted me after reading the comment threads on the last two immigration posts, a lot of LGM commenters clearly would have supported FDR signing Executive Order.
I hate hacks. I hate them with the heat of a 1,000 suns. Unfortunately, as the comment thread on immigration demonstrated the other day, there are a lot of people.
Ana Raquel Minian is one of our finest historians of immigration. I strongly recommend her book Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration. She has a powerful Times op-ed.
On February 17, 2000, the AFL-CIO officially changed its stance on immigration. No longer would the labor movement in this nation officially oppose immigration. Instead, it moved to become one.
Democrats just caving to Trumpism on immigration (at the same time that he uses the openly Nazi language Miller and Bannon are feeding him; no of course he hasn't read.
On December 10, 1976, undocumented workers in Chicago leather plants voted to unionize, leading to battle for them to have access to U.S. labor rights. Their employer soon had some.
