In the aftermath of World War I, there was a concern at the time that America's culture was being diluted and torn asunder by these southern and eastern European immigrants. So they set country quotas for who could come to the United States. Since 1965, immigration to the US has gone from being a European thing to being a global thing.
Today, the United States Supreme Court denied a request from the Trump administration to expedite a decision on DACA. This keeps the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program on life support for a few more months, but also keeps its 690,000 recipients in limbo: Do they stay or do they go? Congress still hasn’t been able to pass a vote on DACA. Vox’s Dara Lind and Matthew Yglesias say that’s because Trump has moved the conversation into unfamiliar territory: from illegal immigration to legal immigration.
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