The Logic of Mass Deportation
This article reviews the immigration policies of the second Trump administration’s first year, analyzing not only the well-publicized expansion of immigration enforcement but also the quieter moves to ease employers’ access to temporary migrant workers. Taken together, they suggest that the administration’s goal is not to end immigration altogether but rather to intensify the two-tier system of workers’ rights created by America’s immigration regime.
Donald Trump’s first presidential term, from 2017 to 2021, seems almost benign compared to the violence and dislocation of the present. That first term failed to deliver much more than the garden-variety conservative policy suite of tax cuts, deregulation, and culture war reaction, though the combination of Trump’s chaotic governing style and the onset of […]
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