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Jamie Longazel

Jamie Longazel

Jamie Longazel is an Associate Professor at John Jay College, City University of New York and author of Undocumented Fears: Immigration and the Politics of Divide and Conquer in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. He is also a Hazleton native and co-founder of Anthracite Unite.  

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Trump Bringing Familiar Politics of Division to Pennsylvania Coal Country

At Thursday's rally, Republican senate candidate Lou Barletta and Trump will do their best to emphasize the differences of those who live in this region. Like the coal barons before them, they’ll look working class Pennsylvanians in the eye and tell them economic policies that favor the rich are good for them and that system-milking immigrants are to blame.

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