One would think that current anxieties about immigration in the US have never been more intense, but history teaches us otherwise. Dartmouth professor Richard Wright examines the present-day contradictions of US immigration policy and places them in historical perspective.

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For more information

• “Violence drives immigration from Central America,” The Brookings Institution, 6/26/2018
• “A Brief History of America’s ‘Love-Hate Relationship’ With Immigration,” The Atlantic, 2/19/2017
• “U.S. Immigration Before 1965,” History.com