Santa Clara University School of Law professor Pratheepan Gulasekaram co-authored and editorial with Karthick Ramakrishnan for the Los Angeles Times, “You’ve heard the GOP rhetoric on immigration. Here are the facts.”
Of all the issues that have bubbled up on the campaign trail so far, nothing has inspired absurdity quite like immigration. Donald Trump isn’t the only Republican candidate to have made outlandish comments: Chris Christie has called for FedEx-like tracking of foreigners, and Carly Fiorina has endorsed a crackdown on Chinese birth tourism.
If the stakes were low, such rhetoric wouldn’t matter much. But of course the stakes are high, and millions of Americans who follow political news as entertainment could end up believing simplistic talking points or even outright misinformation.
