Immigration policy has changed from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s to Ronald Reagan’s and now to President Trump’s. “This is a paradigm shift,” said David Bier, who studies immigration policy at the Cato Institute, the libertarian think tank. And four decades later, President Lyndon B. Johnson traveled to the statue to sign the act that is still the basis of U.S. immigration policy. “That’s the beginning of the presidential authority to interfere with immigration policy,” Daniels said. “We’re seeing populism take control of immigration policy for the first time” since World War II, Bier said.

Source: Washington Post January 28, 2017 23:25 UTC