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Why some Immigrants turn against Immigration (CNN)
Anti-immigrant panic has been a recurring feature in our nation of immigrants. The latest “Reality Check with John Avlon” examines how the panic ebbs and flows in reaction to waves of immigration, reflecting everything from anxieties about assimilation to plain old prejudice and brutal bigotry.
Undocumented Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas joins to explain the appeal of anti-immigrant political and media figures and why the people they influence might surprise you.