"Liberals and the Left Haven't Been Sufficiently Cognizant of the Political Problems Caused by Refugee Flows and Immigration"

"The people who care about maintaining liberal democracies and abiding by international law and giving genuine refugees a fair shake need to push back against this nativist rhetoric and the far-right parties. But we also need to be conscious of the fact that mass migration of people on a regular basis is not going to be sustainable because at a certain point it becomes too much for a society, especially a society that's constructed as a generous welfare state, to handle."

Isaac Chotiner at Slate interviews Sasha Polakow-Suransky, author of Go Back Where You Came From: The Backlash Against Immigration and the Fate of Western Democracy.