UWM Historian Rachel Ida Buff Discusses the Immigration Debate in The Washington Post

“The prolonged political showdown over an unpopular border wall is unlikely to end with a green light from Congress for concrete or steel-slatted construction. But the media shenanigans and xenophobic rhetoric associated with this conflict have come close to completing the decades-long collapse of a crucial linguistic distinction: that between refugees and migrants…”

Read the full article in The Washington Post

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