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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

Trump and the Politics of Xenophobia

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

President, Barack, News, Politics, Wnyc, Obama, Lizza, Washington, Wickenden

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Jelani Cobb and Dorothy Wickenden discuss the Administration’s decision about the DREAMers, and the history of anti-immigration movements in the United States.

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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

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It's Friday, September 8th. I'm Dorothy Wickendon, executive editor of The New Yorker writers and editors about politics. It's Friday, September 8th.

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I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker.

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On Tuesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Trump administration was

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ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

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President Obama created DACA in June 2012 to shield minors from deportation.

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It currently protects over 800,000 immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children.

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In Sessions' public statement, he argued that DACA was unconstitutional and undermined the

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interests of the American people. The effect of this unilateral executive amnesty,

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among other things, contributed to a surge of miners at the southern border

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that yielded terrible humanitarian consequences.

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It also denied jobs to hundreds of thousands of Americans

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