There’s a fight right now within the Democratic Party about ICE enforcement. Meaning: What should our immigration policy be? I do think there’s a sense that the old consensus is dead. All that pluralist claptrap that you got taught — people come from all over, and they can all be Americans. Yes, which is a perfect articulation of what used to be a fairly kind of consensus vision that underlay the debates happening above it, that consensus is torn apart.

Source: International New York Times March 12, 2026 23:24 UTC