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The Way Out of the Immigration Mess
Residents and protesters clash with federal agents in the East Side neighborhood on October 14, 2025, in Chicago, Illinois. (Joshua Lott/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
The country might seem more divided than ever on immigration, but a consensus is closer than you think.
By Joe Nocera
02.03.26 — U.S. Politics
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“You know what American voters hate?” asked Adam Nowrasteh. “They hate chaos.”

Nowrasteh is the senior vice president for policy at the Cato Institute, the libertarian think tank. One of his primary areas of focus is immigration policy, which is why I had called him. Why, I asked, had most Americans opposed former president Joe Biden’s loose border approach, which allowed over 5.7 milli

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Joe Nocera
Joe Nocera is a senior editor and writer at The Free Press. During his long career in journalism, he has been a columnist at The New York Times, Bloomberg, Esquire, and GQ, the editorial director of Fortune, and a writer at Newsweek, Texas Monthly and The Washington Monthly. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2007.
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