This is the position of Alex Nowrasteh writing for Cato, who in the course of a useful Twitter exchange tried to convince me that his use of “anti” (see: “Rebuttal of Senator Sessions’ Anti-Immigration Talking Points”) was some accurate hyper-literal label, bracketing the fact that I’m certain he knows it to be fraught with the weight of implied xenophobia, nativism, et al. My response to Mr Nowrasteh was that favoring
