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Thank you David! How is the book?

Andrew Sullivan has an interesting article where he says that the Democrats' failure to achieve any cohesive position on illegal immigration is the number one reason why Trump may well be reelected in the fall. And I guess I see that: how can people across the country see the influx of below-minimum wage labor as anything other than an attack on their own livelihoods?

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The reporting she does on the views of the working class gives a valuable insight.

How immigration, illegal and not, affects wages and opportunities is far more complex than she and the people she interviews thinks. But what matters in the near term is perception. And saying that you'll be super tough on immigration is a winning issue for Trump.

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