Americans are quite welcoming of immigrants overall. Obviously, we have significant pockets of xenophobia, but overall quite welcoming of immigrants. But what happened was The American public got very rattled by the open borders of 2021. And there's been significant backlash that Donald Trump has demagogued off of and taken advantage of. But he is now, he is now dangerously close politically to doing, to going way overboard. (48:14–48:21)
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Asserts that the American public was unsettled by perceived open borders in 2021.
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