Anti-immigration advocates thrilled with Trump's win
Anti-immigration advocates thrilled with Trump's win
- November 21, 2016
- Leo Chavez, anthropology, in The Orange County Register, Nov. 21, 2016
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Leo Chavez, a professor of anthropology at UC Irvine who has studied anti-illegal
immigration and anti-Latino movements, said it’s natural for activists to feel emboldened
by Trump’s popularity. ... “California is the first in lots of things,” Chavez said.
“We were first to push the anti-immigrant rhetoric that we’re now seeing in other
states like Arizona
deportations.”
For the full story, please visit http://www.ocregister.com/articles/trump-736158-immigration-anti.html.
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