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Temporary immigration ban highlights longer-term risk

President Trump’s tweet announcing a temporary ban on immigration is most likely just a short-term tactic to fire up his base. But it is hard not to see this as the beginning of an even more nativist post-pandemic policy agenda that the Trump administration will run on in November.

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