As the Constitution declares, the United States is a nation "of the people," and the people love to argue about politics. If you have ever experienced or read about life in a dictatorship, you quickly learn that political debate, much less discussion, about current affairs is discouraged. In America, however, political opining is as much a natural right as any.
Furthermore, with the advent of social media, it has become every American's hard-won duty to feel deeply about issues in the public square, even if they know very little of the details about the issues they feel deeply about.
Even still, few political debates ignite as much of a visceral reaction as the one centering on the immigration issue in the United States. Few issues inspire more anger against the other side. Depending on your perspective, it might be hard to separate the immigration debate from the vivid caricatures that often attend to controversial public conversations in our country.
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