The Anxiety of Immigration

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In 1965, the United States immigration policy changed significantly with 1965 immigration reform. Before that, immigration policies have been heavily heavily sort of biased towards white Europeans. And so the 1965 opened the borders in a significant way to immigrants from Asia. That's the immigration flow that my family was was part of in 1972. So already just trickling into that, we were kind of on the front edges of immigration, Asian immigration into Rogers Park.

One cannot make sense of the deformation of the current conservative movement without understanding immigration. And one cannot grasp the nature of immigration without understanding anxiety. Like most political issues today, the topic of immigration is bathed in anxiety - for everyone on all sides. Curtis draws these connections, with the ultimate aim to show that Christians can uniquely contribute to the conversation about immigration because we have uniquely good news about anxiety. This episode draws from Curtis’ talk at a convening of the National Immigration Forum in Ohio that included local pastors and civic leaders.

January 6 Was Practice, The Atlantic, January 2022 by Barton Gellman

Pew Research Center on Immigration and Politics

Immigration and far-right voting : New evidence (from Europe) from the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)