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Americans’ support for immigration is at record highs – but the government is out of sync with their views

  • Written by Mariano Sana, Associate Professor of Sociology, Vanderbilt University
Polls show that Americans feel more welcoming toward immigrants than they have in the past.Evgenia Parajanian/Shutterstock.com

Since its start, the Trump administration has implemented policies to step up immigration enforcement and reduce the number of immigrants admitted into the U.S.

Many of these efforts – like the border wall, the travel...

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