Latinos & Racism in the Trump Era

Abstract This essay examines the roots, causes, and effects of racism experienced by Latinos in the Trump era. We argue that Trump and his administration were not the origin of Latinos' experiences of racism, but his rise to power was, in part, derived from Latino racialization. Preexisting politics of Latino immigration, Whites' fear of loss of status due to demographic shifts, and historical and contemporary processes of racializing Latinos were seized by the Trump administration and made central features of his renegade presidential campaign and policy agenda. White nationalist racism became the defining feature of the Trump presidency, making Latinos' heightened experiences of racism, and the relegitimization of overt White nationalism, one of its lasting legacies.

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Trump Administration Criticizes NATO Members for Failing to Meet Defense Spending Guideline; United States Joins Other NATO Members in Supporting Montenegro's Membership in the Organization

The American Journal of International Law ◽

10.1017/ajil.2017.47 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 111 (3) ◽

pp. 756-764

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Member State ◽

North Atlantic ◽

The United States ◽

Presidential Campaign ◽

Defense Spending ◽

The North ◽

Senior Administration ◽

The North Atlantic ◽

Trump Administration

Throughout Donald Trump's presidential campaign and into the first months of his presidency, he has warned that the United States' commitment to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) may depend on whether its partner states increase their defense spending in line with previously adopted guidelines. While senior administration officials have reaffirmed U.S. commitments to the NATO alliance, including the North Atlantic Treaty's mutual defense obligation on several occasions, President Trump himself did not so until mid-June. Separately, the Trump administration signaled its support for NATO by supporting the admission of Montenegro as a new member state.

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New Paradigms in Public Policy

10.5871/bacad/9780197264935.001.0001 ◽

2013 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Religious Diversity ◽

Local Area ◽

British Society ◽

Policy Agenda ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Political Issues ◽

International Financial Crisis ◽

Demographic Shifts

This book reviews some of the most challenging developments in British society as they are understood by policy-makers and by academics. The key point is that academic debates identify a range of ways in which issues can be understood and tackled, but policy is typically based on a narrow subset of possible approaches. This is illustrated by discussion of climate change, demographic shifts, the response to greater ethnic and religious diversity, the debate about community and local area politics, democratisation, nudge, the international financial crisis, and the growth of popular disillusion with politics and politicians. These areas range across economic, social, and political issues. The book aims to contribute to our understanding of governance and particularly of how the ideas that lead the policy agenda emerge and are reinforced.

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Controlling the Enforcement Bureaucracy

The President and Immigration Law ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190694364.003.0007 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 162-188

Author(s):

Adam B. Cox ◽

Cristina M. Rodríguez

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Executive Branch ◽

Immigration Law ◽

Policy Agenda ◽

Control Line ◽

Daily Exercise ◽

Immigration And Customs Enforcement ◽

Line Level ◽

Exercise Of Discretion ◽

Trump Administration

This chapter demonstrates how the President’s control over immigration policy depends intimately on the structure and culture of the enforcement bureaucracy. These features of the bureaucracy in turn shape presidential policymaking. In particular, low-level executive branch officials play a crucial role in effectuating the enforcement power, as they are the ones responsible for the daily exercise of discretion within the system. To see how these dynamics have played out within the Executive Branch, the chapter studies the Obama administration’s efforts to centralize enforcement discretion in order to control line-level agents and contrasts those efforts with the early decisions of the Trump administration. It focuses on the attempts by political officials to tame the discretion of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. President Obama’s efforts to discipline the decision-making of these line officials culminated in his two signature initiatives designed to insulate upward of five million unauthorized immigrants from removal. The bureaucratic reality of presidential immigration law has been on display equally during President Trump’s administration, including through efforts to centralize control over discretion where doing so has proven necessary to advancing the President’s policy agenda.

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Free Trade under Fire

10.23943/princeton/9780691201009.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Douglas A. Irwin

Keyword(s):

Free Trade ◽

Environmental Regulations ◽

Trade Agreements ◽

Global Trade ◽

Policy Agenda ◽

Clear Understanding ◽

Plant Closings ◽

National Sovereignty ◽

The Impact ◽

Trump Administration

Free trade is always under attack, more than ever in recent years. The imposition of numerous U.S. tariffs in 2018, and the retaliation those tariffs have drawn, has thrust trade issues to the top of the policy agenda. Critics contend that free trade brings economic pain, including plant closings and worker layoffs, and that trade agreements serve corporate interests, undercut domestic environmental regulations, and erode national sovereignty. Why are global trade and agreements such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership so controversial? Does free trade deserve its bad reputation? This book aside the misconceptions that run rampant in the debate over trade and gives readers a clear understanding of the issues involved. In its fifth edition, the book has been updated to address the sweeping new policy developments under the Trump administration and the latest research on the impact of trade.

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Rivaling the PRI: The Image Management of Vicente Fox and the Use of Public Opinion Polling in the 2000 Mexican Election

Latin American Politics and Society ◽

10.1111/j.1548-2456.2005.tb00312.x ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 47 (02) ◽

pp. 143-158 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Brandon Rottinghaus ◽

Irina Alberro

Keyword(s):

Public Opinion ◽

Presidential Campaign ◽

Presidential Campaigns ◽

Policy Agenda ◽

Image Management ◽

Campaign Strategy ◽

Demographic Groups ◽

Opinion Polling ◽

The Creation

Abstract This research examines the data from private polls conducted during Vicente Fox's presidential campaign through the lenses of the “modernization” of campaigning, the creation of image in the modern Mexican presidency, and the survey tools used by the campaign to achieve a historic presidential victory in 2000. Fox's campaign team used polling to determine the potential of the Mexican public to be persuaded by an opposition candidate, to provide a continuous update on how the campaign strategy was working, to assist in solidifying Fox's image and message of change (rather than promoting his policy agenda), and to target demographic groups that were perceived to be important electoral partners. These findings suggest that public opinion polling is a useful tool in Mexico to combat longstanding corporatist structures used to favor the PRI. Presidential campaigns in Mexico are beginning to resemble modern campaigns in other mature democracies in their use of private polling data; future Mexican campaigns will become more image- and personality-based.

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