Daniel Knowles

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The Intelligence from The Economist · The 250-year experiment: America’s birthday · 3 Jul 2026 podcast

People started taking immigrants into their homes, delivering food to people.

And then people got shot, countless people got beaten up, children at a Halloween parade got tear gassed.

A whole bunch of armed militarized Border Patrol officers did a rappelling raid down into an apartment building and lined up a hundred or so people outside in handcuffs, many of whom turned out to be American citizens, none of whom.

Turned out to be the gang members they were supposed to be.

And it all happened again, even more dramatically, in Minnesota.

In January, you had two American citizens very much peacefully protesting, gunned down by agents of the state, and then denounced by America's leaders as domestic terrorists.

There was then a pullback from the brink a bit, that the administration has changed its tactics, but the real sense that this immigration policy is also a domestic politics policy, that it's a way of remoulding America into a more conservative, perhaps whiter, perhaps less diverse kind of place.

I think that's what an awful lot of people felt.

America, very much more so than other rich democracies, has an immigration system that is quite generous to relatives.

You can bring your parents or your sisters and brothers, you can sponsor them to move here in a way that I don't think is true in many other countries.

And actually exceptionally difficult for economic migrants and becoming more so, the system is incredibly slow, even if you qualify.

It's capricious.

It still works in physical paper.

I can tell you that from personal experience.

I kind of worry that such is the division.

In America and the inability of Congress to get anything done, that even with a political pendulum swinging, it's gonna be hard to create that rational immigration system from anybody really.

And so it's going to remain this argument about who is an American and who deserves to be here that I fear is not gonna go away even with a big political swing.

I think the Netflix thing is really interesting in that one of the things that surprised me most living in America the past five years is how much British television is consumed by Americans.

And so the broader platform thing Robert's completely right.

It's both spreading American culture overseas, but it's also making Americans more exposed to the world.

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