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○ The party divide over who gets only 5 percentage points apart in their favorabil-
to come to the U.S. has never ity toward immigrants, according to Pew Research
Center. Back then—just a dozen years ago—
been wider. Can it be bridged? business advocates of more open borders found
a warmer welcome in the Republican Party. And
on the Democratic side, a first-term senator named
The standoff over immigration in the U.S. Congress Barack Obama could write, “When I see Mexican
that shut the government for three days looks flags waved at pro-immigration demonstrations,
strange to a world that sees the U.S. as a nation of I sometimes feel a flush of patriotic resentment.”
immigrants fighting over immigration. “America Bipartisan consensus on immigration feels like
was a model for immigration, but that image has ancient history. Today, congressional Republicans
collapsed,” says Hidenori Sakanaka, head of the spurn the pro-immigration messages of power-
Japan Immigration Policy Institute, which pro- ful business groups such as the U.S. Chamber of
motes more newcomers to insular Japan. Commerce and the Business Roundtable. While
Americans with a sense of history find it Democrats have gone all-in on liberalized immi-
odd, too. That’s because the deep partisan split gration, seeing themselves as a party of inclu-
over immigration is actually quite new. Anti- sion, Republicans increasingly see themselves as January 29, 2018
immigration sentiment has waxed and waned defending what it means to be an American. Edited by
over the centuries, to be sure. But as recently as By last July, Pew found that 84 percent of Matthew Philips
2006, Democratic and Republican voters were Democrats and those leaning toward the Businessweek.com