Daily Kos’ Joan McCarter wrote earlier this week that recent Reuters/Ipsos polling indicated that Donald Trump's racism could drive decent people to the polls. It’s also having an effect on how people view immigration, and for the better.
“Reuters found that white Americans are 19 percent more supportive of a path to citizenship for unauthorized immigrants than they were four years ago, and slightly less supportive of increased deportations,” The Atlantic reported. “Americans are rejecting Trump and Stephen Miller's ‘mastermind’ anti-immigrant strategy,” immigrant rights advocacy group America’s Voice tweeted.
In fact, The Atlantic notes that “although the Trump administration took steps last week to limit even legal immigration, the Trump presidency has seen an increase in the number of Americans who support more legal immigration—not just among Democrats, but even slightly among Republicans.”
Miller and Trump are horrifically tripling down their attacks on legal immigration methods, like asylum, by trying to kill the decades-old Flores Agreement in order to keep children and their families detained for longer. They’re hoping to use anti-immigrant hatred as a 2020 strategy. It can fail—but only if we make sure it does.