To many, the answer is obvious: The last decade has been cruel to many workers, who in turn blame immigrants. That’s how Hillary Clinton explains support for the anti-immigrant rhetoric of her Republican rival, Donald Trump: “These are hard times that folks are going through.”Yet the link between economic circumstances and acceptance of immigrants is surprisingly weak. How did immigration become rocket fuel for populism?

Source: Wall Street Journal June 29, 2016 18:00 UTC