Trump’s birthright citizenship stunt panders to zealots like alleged Pittsburgh shooter Robert Bowers
Trump’s birthright citizenship stunt panders to zealots like alleged Pittsburgh shooter Robert Bowers
- October 30, 2018
- Leo Chavez, anthropology, via Daily Beast, Oct. 30, 2018
Surely, though, what Trump is doing is politics. Leo Chavez, a professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, and author of several books on immigration policy, told The Daily Beast that “the president is raising the issue right before the midterm election as a dog-whistle to fire up his base about immigration.”
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