In 2024, Donald Trump was elected President of the United States of America. Again. In many ways, Trump’s extended reign represents two systems of reality working in parallel: (1) A country with a decades-long, broken immigration system that descendants of immigrants—everyone except Native Americans and Black Americans who are descendants of enslaved peoples—have yet to fully confront, and (2) An anti-immigrant media ecosystem that is increasingly shaping (via mis- and disinformation) and controlling our country’s immigration narrative, and whose tentacles are everywhere, from talk radio and
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