Hard Truths About How the Immigration Mess Happened, Hard Truths About the Current Political Environment

Frank Sharry elaborates on the Dec. 16, 2024, piece in the Atlantic that he wrote with Cecelia Munoz, How Democrats Lost Their Way on Immigration: The party once championed an approach popular with voters and politicians alike. Why give up on it?

Why indeed? Well, as Sharry explains, there were lots of reasons: Republican bad faith, especially back in 2013, plus lots of misjudgments and political malpractice on the liberal side.

But it’s got to get fixed. 

Frank Sharry is an immigration activist and advocate. If you’re interested, check out his Wikipedia article. As a point of personal privilege, I was happy to learn that he’s a Princeton man. As we used to say back in the day: “Princeton in the Nation’s Service.”