In the United States, the vicious cycle of unlawful migration and heightened xenophobia has been going on for decades. It’s what led to Mr. Trump’s election in 2016, and if Democrats cannot propose reasonable alternatives on immigration, they will lose again. Liberals will have to propose a workable path to citizenship for the roughly 20 million undocumented migrants in the United States. And liberals must keep fighting every inch of Mr. Trump’s border wall. But reframing the conversation in terms of merit calls Mr. Trump’s bluff.

Source: New York Times May 17, 2019 17:03 UTC