During difficult times, people look for answers.

If history teaches us anything, that answer is usually finding someone else to blame.

Today’s anti-immigrant movement follows a dangerous pattern: stoke fear, tell lies, and divide working people against each other. We should recognize the humanity of people fleeing poverty, violence, or climate chaos. Many come here with little more than hope they will find opportunity and be treated with dignity.

Instead, we are bombarded with claims that immigrants are taking jobs, draining welfare programs, and driving up crime.

Let’s be clear – the data says otherwise.

Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than US-born citizens, according to studies from the Cato Institute and the American Immigration Council. They contribute more in taxes t

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