In recent years, politicians in a handful of local communities and states have passed laws and regulations designed to make it easier to deport unauthorized immigrants or to make their lives so unpleasant that they’d just leave. The media’s unrelenting focus on these ultimately self-defeating measures created the false impression that these politicians speak for most of America. They don’t.
Integration Nation: Immigrants, Refugees, and America at Its Best by Susan E Eaton reminds us that we each have choices to make about how to think and act in the face of the rapid cultural transformation that has reshaped the United States.