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Rebecca Hamlin comments about the Trump administration on immigration

Rebecca E. Hamlin, political science, comments in a story about the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce illegal immigration by threatening other counties with funding cutoffs and issuing warnings to migrants they will be treated harshly if they enter the country illegally. She says such policies just don’t work. “They might work when someone’s only motivation to migrate is economic, but they really don’t work – and that is consistently found all over the world – when it comes to people who are fleeing what they believe to be potentially a life-or-death situation,” Hamlin says. (The Atlantic, 10/16/18)

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