Jean Guerrero: Stop letting hate groups control the immigration debate

President Joe Biden is making the same mistake President Barack Obama made in his first term: catering to xenophobes while performing compassion toward immigrants.

The strategy lays out the red carpet for Trumpism 2.0.

Either Democrats dramatically reinvent the immigration debate in defense of multiracial democracy, or they reinforce white paranoia and accelerate our descent into white nationalism. They can't have it both ways.

Obama tried and failed. By ramping up deportations to while claiming he was focused on felons, he conflated Dreamers — people brought to the U.S. as children — to him as an open-borders president.