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When politicians turn immigration into a 'crisis,' they hurt their own people

  • Written by Megan A. Carney, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Arizona
An Italian official gestures at migrants waiting to disembark in the Sicilian port of Catania in August 2018.Giovanni Isolino/AFP via Getty Images

A massive influx of immigrants on the southern border led to record numbers of people entering the country without legal permission, record numbers of migrant deaths and the criminalization of...

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