What’s your attitude to immigrants and refugees? It may depend on where you live

Friday, Nov 23, 2018, 01:58 AM | Source: Pursuit

Timothy B. Gravelle, Tamas Wells

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Earlier this year, US President Donald Trump initiated his “zero tolerance” policy – detaining and prosecuting anyone who illegally enters the United States. The result, according to Human Rights Watch, was that more than 2000 immigrant children were separated from their parents.

After national and international outcry from the public and politicians, Donald Trump signed an executive order to end the separations, but a month later announced that he intended to end birthright citizenship – the principle that every child born on US soil is automatically a native-born citizen.

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