{"id":300,"date":"2019-03-06T10:50:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T15:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics\/?p=300"},"modified":"2019-03-07T11:35:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T16:35:25","slug":"the-shadowy-network-shaping-trumps-anti-immigration-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/the-shadowy-network-shaping-trumps-anti-immigration-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Critics of immigration or anti-immigrant hate groups? Local organizations influence local, national political climate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andersen (2008) and de Graauw (2018) both discuss the impacts and influence of interest groups on the civic life of immigrants. In her six-city study, Andersen focuses on the ways in which local organizations help connect immigrant groups to local politics and mobilize their constituents to advance certain issues; furthermore, the voluntary sector often fills in the gaps that political parties no longer choose to do. Similarly, de Graauw analyzes how 501(c)(3) nonprofits are increasingly providing a multitude of social services to immigrants and the\u00a0political representation and incorporation of immigrants into society. Both authors examine local groups working to advance a pro-immigrant agenda, but there lies an interesting point: who opposes them?<\/p>\n<p>In this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/2018\/09\/27\/shadowy-network-shaping-trumps-anti-immigration-policies\/?utm_term=.4b01ca5983ab\">article<\/a> from the Washington Post, Goodman tracks the move from the nativist organization Oregonians for Immigration Reform (OFIR) to overturn a sanctuary policy, and identifies the history of explicit anti-immigrant interest groups, which began through the work of John Tanton. Since the late 70s, Tanton has either created or helped create a number of nativist and extremist organizations who have ties to white-supremacy\u2014including the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), U.S. English, and the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)\u2014and has worked at the local and state level to push a racially-charged agenda that appeals to white resentment. Importantly, these groups have now affected efforts for bipartisan compromises on immigration repeatedly. Trump has taken former staffers into positions of power too.<\/p>\n<p>Is it fair for anti-immigrant groups to act deceptively to push their agendas?<\/p>\n<p>Link: www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/2018\/09\/27\/shadowy-network-shaping-trumps-anti-immigration-policies\/?utm_term=.4b01ca5983ab<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andersen (2008) and de Graauw (2018) both discuss the impacts and influence of interest groups on the civic life of immigrants. In her six-city study, Andersen focuses on the ways in which local organizations help connect immigrant groups to local politics and mobilize their constituents to advance certain issues; furthermore, the voluntary sector often fills [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1028,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,7,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news-all","category-news-1","category-news-wk5","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}