A Lineage of American Exclusion
Recent policy developments within the Trump administration signal a change in how the U.S. will treat immigration. First, the president indicated his intention to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, then passed an executive order banning immigrants and refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries. If we take Trump at his word (ill-advised as that is), these changes reflect a policy putting “America first,” a thinly veiled declaration of the new administration’s generally