The GOP’s Immigration Curbs Will Threaten Social Security

President Donald Trump’s renewed crusade against legal immigration poses a direct threat to the long-term financial interests of the older White Americans who remain his core supporters.

Since the tragic shooting of two National Guard troops in Washington, DC last week by a man from Afghanistan, Trump has directed a fusillade of invective not only at undocumented immigrants, refugees and foreigners seeking asylum, but at all of the nation’s foreign-born population —nearly 52 million people. He has pledged to retrench multiple avenues for legal immigration and to remove an untold number of immigrants already in the US through a process of “reverse migration” — a phrase associated with far-right European parties.