Donald Trump’s absurd candidacy for the presidency has obscured the broad-based resentment at continuing levels of immigration and the problems faced by lower income Americans. The decision by successive US administrations to continue either purposely or implicitly high levels of legal and illegal immigration could have been politically sustainable if not for the fact that the present US economy does not deliver for lower and middle-income Americans.
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