<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"><head><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml><o:OfficeDocumentSettings><o:AllowPNG/><o:PixelsPerInch>96</o:PixelsPerInch></o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--></head><body><div style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div>If one reads David Brooks' column and scans the reader comments, it's clear that the relation between neoliberalism and immigration policy is poorly understood if at all, except in the case of relatively few commenters. It's also clear that "blaming the victim" has become increasingly applied to so-called red states and Trump voters, as if they could possibly have felt that Hillary Clinton was a preferable choice. Liberal classism/elitism is alive and well, justified by the fact that it is "white on white" racism or perhaps "immigrant on white" racism, and therefore apparently understood by its proponents as not racism at all, just urban vs. "rural." It's a big ideological mess, and hampers our thinking about how immigration policy has conformed to neoliberal dictates in a number of areas. Unfortunately, a Big Ten college town like this one is the last place that you would expect an honest and enlightened debate to occur, and it certainly has not, it is utterly taboo. This is personified, for example, by the exploitation of the Pakistani family who lost their son in Afghanistan by the Democratic Party.</div><div><br></div><div>DG</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a class="enhancr_card_8306665354" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/29/opinion/east-germany-immigration-usa.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region">Opinion | The East Germans of the 21st Century</a><br></div><div><br></div><div class="ydp271be185yahoo-link-enhancr-card ydp271be185ymail-preserve-class ydp271be185ymail-preserve-style" id="ydp271be185enhancr_card_8306665354" style="max-width:400px;font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Arial, sans-serif;" contenteditable="false" data-url="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/29/opinion/east-germany-immigration-usa.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region" data-type="YENHANCER" data-size="MEDIUM"><a class="ydp271be185yahoo-enhancr-cardlink" style="text-decoration:none !important;color:#000 !important;" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/29/opinion/east-germany-immigration-usa.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><table class="ydp271be185card-wrapper ydp271be185yahoo-ignore-table" style="max-width:400px;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td width="400"><table width="100%" class="ydp271be185card ydp271be185yahoo-ignore-table" style="max-width:400px;border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(224, 228, 233);border-radius:2px;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td height="175" class="ydp271be185card-primary-image-cell" background="https://s.yimg.com/lo/api/res/1.2/1nDmBkQcNHjJMk_myzT4YQ--~A/Zmk9ZmlsbDt3PTQwMDtoPTIwMDthcHBpZD1pZXh0cmFjdA--/https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/01/30/opinion/30brooksWeb/30brooksWeb-facebookJumbo.jpg.cf.jpg" valign="top" style='border-radius: 2px 2px 0px 0px; 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