Trump won. Now what?

In recent weeks, the president-elect has selected a white nationalist (Steve Bannon) to be his chief strategist. He’s tapped the most virulent anti-immigrant senator (Jeff Sessions) to be his attorney general. Come January 20, the instruments of state repression will be in the hands of some of the country’s most reactionary forces.

Politically, Trump will owe nothing to immigrant communities and owe much to a xenophobic Republican base. Undocumented immigrants, who won some victories but endured many more deportations over the last eight years, will be forced to contend with a man who launched his presidential campaign calling Mexican immigrants criminals and rapists.