{"id":840,"date":"2019-04-03T14:37:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T18:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics\/?p=840"},"modified":"2019-04-03T14:37:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T18:37:53","slug":"trump-crackdown-unnerves-immigrants-and-the-farmers-who-rely-on-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/trump-crackdown-unnerves-immigrants-and-the-farmers-who-rely-on-them\/","title":{"rendered":"“Trump Crackdown Unnerves Immigrants, and the Farmers Who Rely on Them”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Link to New York Times article: https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/18\/nyregion\/ny-farmers-undocumented-workers-trump-immigration.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Chapter Four of White Backlash: Immigration, Race, and American Politics<\/em>, Abrajano and Hajnal explore what is causing the response of white America to immigrants. They argue that a racial threat narrative has emerged in areas with larger Latino populations, and this higher Latino population in the area makes white Americans feel a \u201cpotential threat to white power and resources\u201d (p.153). Abrajano and Hajnal also explore how feelings about immigration have a partisan context and can uniquely spill over to affecting views on other political issues, such as crime, healthcare, and welfare.<\/p>\n

A recent New York Times article offers a different perspective of how white Americans respond to local immigrant communities. Specifically, the article focuses on the reaction of white Americans who depend on undocumented workers for their low-cost farm labor. Many of these white farmers are distancing themselves from President Trump\u2019s anti-immigrant calls because without the labor of undocumented immigrants, there may not find a replacement. Interestingly, farmers who once supported Trump are now seeing the economic effects of anti-immigration policies and changing their position, stating:<\/p>\n

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\u201cI still agree with Trump in a lot of ways, but I\u2019m more on the fence about him now,\u201d Ms. Raby said. \u201cI don\u2019t want to lose the immigrants who are working here and growing our food.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

White Americans seem to be realizing that they have become economically dependent on immigrant labor, and this could predict a future change of political opinions to a less exclusionary immigration position going forward.<\/p>\n

Discussion question<\/strong>: As mentioned above, Abrajano and Hajnal argue that opinions on immigration affect other political issues. Do you predict that the changing opinions on immigration that the article discusses will lead to a broader shift in political attitudes in the reverse direction?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Link to New York Times article: https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/18\/nyregion\/ny-farmers-undocumented-workers-trump-immigration.html Summary: In Chapter Four of White Backlash: Immigration, Race, and American Politics, Abrajano and Hajnal explore what is causing the response of white America to immigrants. They argue that a racial threat narrative has emerged in areas with larger Latino populations, and this higher Latino population in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-5","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","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\/1132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}