Trump’s election hasn’t sparked widespread anti-immigration sentiment
Even if Trump does enact some measures to keep out immigrants, it’s likely that there will be pressure from both the public and from business groups for Trump’s successor to reverse these measures.
December 18, 2017 1:02 PM
The wave of anti-immigration sentiment that boosted the presidential campaign of Donald Trump has eerie historical parallels.
In 1955, historian John Higham wrote a book titled, “Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925.†The restrictionist movements, ideas and legislative efforts chronicled in Higham’s history bear a distinct resemblance to those that have emerged in the present day. But there are good reasons to think that this time is different because economic and cultural changes make it unlikely the U.S. will go down the same isolationist path that it trod in the early 20th century.
https://www.newsday.com/opinion/commentary/immigration-under-president-trump-1.15506994
