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The impact of immigration

Geoffrey Heeren (Valparaiso): Persons Who Are Not the People: The Changing Rights of Immigrants in the United States. From The Social Contract, a special issue on the victims of immigration. From The New Yorker, James Surowiecki on why it pays to have immigrants stay; and the party next time: As immigration turns red states blue, how can Republicans transform their platform? Harold Meyerson on the future of the white man's party. Why immigration reform won't solve the GOP's huge problem with minorities. Timothy McGettigan on Barack Obama and the death of white Republican privilege. Michael Tomasky on how the Right is still racist. Chrissie Long on the impact of immigration on anti-Hispanic hate crime in the United States. Jonathan Cohn on stuff white people like. Death in the desert: Are American vigilantes murdering undocumented immigrants in Arizona? An interview with Jeff Biggers on the Arizonification of America. Chris Barsanti reviews What’s the Matter with White People? Why We Long for a Golden Age That Never Was by Joan Walsh (and more and more). Obama can only do so much: Angry older whites have to decide if they want to secede from our multiracial future.