Elizabeth F. Cohen
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Elizabeth F. Cohen is a professor of political science at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School. She is the author of four books on immigration and citizenship, most recently, Illegal: How America’s Lawless Immigration Regime Threatens Us All. Follow her at @alixabeth.
The threat is not coming from outsiders.