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Donald Trump and the Republican Congress are failing to repeal Obamacare

and have so far done little to advance their reactionary legislative agenda.

That's great news.

But what Trump has successfully done

is spread fear through immigrant communities

by demonizing migrants and empowering ICE agents to sweep up pretty much anyone in the country without the right papers.

And with Trump's Muslim and refugee bans, which are currently before the Supreme Court,

the president has made bigotry the explicit cornerstone of immigration policy.

But on immigration as on other matters,

Trump does not emerge from a vacuum.

Mainstream Democratic and Republican politicians have for decades built a giant deportation machinery

and militarized the border beyond recognition.

And in doing so, they have only added fuel to the

nativist fire that helped bring Trump to office. Today my guest is

Dara Lind, the immigration reporter at Vox.

Immigration policy and politics are as confusing and complex as things get.

And Lind is one of the few reporters who consistently gets it right in all the maddeningly cruel details. Darry Linde, welcome to the dig.

I'm hoping you can catch us up on immigration.

The Trump administration has so far

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