Throughout its 13 years, New Labour backtracked on the issue of immigration and pandered to the anti-immigration sentiments.
As wages were driven down, contract labor became a rallying point for anti-immigration sentiment.
Mr. Lind's anti-immigration sentiment is commonplace, and his choice of words is banal compared with other expressions in the media and in Washington.
His Rivers of Blood speech helped define immigration as a political issue and helped legitimize anti-immigration sentiment.
The rise in anti-immigration sentiments was reinforced by a series of terrorist bombs in Paris in 1986 which were linked to Muslim immigrants in France.
Cohen commented that "the main theme of the episode is illegal immigration and anti-immigration sentiment, which is a big issue here in California.
HIAS continued to help these immigrants find safe haven despite growing anti-immigration sentiments in the U.S.
But in keeping with the rising tide of anti-immigration sentiment, increasingly the Clinton Administration is showing the door to illegal immigrants.
Some people worry that a German could rise up to tap the same anti-immigration sentiments that swelled the ranks of the Freedom Party.
Immigrants' advocates blame what they call rising anti-immigration sentiment for the tougher law, but say it exceeds what most Americans would find acceptable.