Giridharadas: Trump’s Travel Ban a ‘Back Door’ to ‘Tilt Immigration’ Back in the ‘Direction’ of Whites

‘This seems like a back door over the long run to tilt immigration back in the direction of Europe, Australia, Russia, a few places like that’

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GIRIDHARADAS: "The dark parts of that map are where the divorce rate is high and that has a lot to do with just economic development, and so places where there are more likely to be stepparents and step siblings and half siblings and those things are the places that are dark and that’s now going to be the definition of family by the United States government and those are mostly white countries. And the places where all the disallowed relations that you just listed are deeply important and embedded in people’s lives in India, where my family comes from, and so many other places are the mostly non-white countries. And so it just seems like in 1965, this country got over and repealed it and kind of created a new law that favored, that had favored only white immigrants, and got over that, that’s why my family is here and many others are here, because we stopped favoring white immigrants. This seems like a back door over the long run to tilt immigration back in the direction of Europe, Australia, Russia, a few places like that."

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