In this excerpt from Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire, Robert Perkinson shows how the Right embraced racial animus as a political strategy.
It doesn't much matter whether people "support" the escalation. What matters is whether they openly oppose it -- and, if so, how vocally and emphatically.
When we are figuring out how to talk about immigration, we should listen to what Lyndon Johnson said in 1965 that convinced Congress to enact civil rights legislation.