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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
The Wall Is in Trump’s Head: Immigration, National Sovereignty, and America’s Borders
In an op-ed recently published in The Hill, I examine the inconvenient truths that confront President Trump’s border wall proposal.
President Trump’s termination of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) last month showed callous disregard for innocents caught in the broken U.S. immigration system. On Sunday, he doubled down. The president turned those same “dreamers” into bargaining chips, by conditioning any legislative deal on their fate to Democratic agreement to a set of hard line proposals. These include constructing his long promised border wall, hiring 10,000 more immigration agents, and cracking down on “sanctuary cities.”
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