While the Trump administration’s draconian immigration policies may hurt businesses reliant on undocumented labor, the fractured capitalist class won’t stand up to the president.

In Donald Trump’s Republican Party, immigration is one of the few issues on which there remains a party line. On trade, Republicans are divided between protectionists and free traders. On foreign policy, Russia hawks joust with China hawks, though both seem open to bombing Mexico. On economics, rhetorical commitments to protecting entitlements sit side by side with traditional GOP libertarianism. While Trump’s personalist reign over the party has for now suppressed these conflicts, the divisions are nonetheless obvious.

Not so with immigration. For the last decade, there has been no Republican dissent from nativ

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