How the West Changed Its Mind on Immigration

How the West Changed Its Mind on Immigration

Every recent wave of mass migration into Western countries began in optimism and ended in tears. Immigration liberalization efforts in the United States in the form of the 2013 Gang of 8 bill and President Obama’s 2014 expansion of DACA (including Deferred Action for Parents of Americans) were stopped in their tracks by the 2014-15 wave of immigration that saw 3.1 million immigrants cross the border, about one-third of those doing so illegally. …