But at least one economist, who strongly favors liberal #immigration policies, was more sympathetic to the White House’s move. “The situation at the southern #border has been chaotic,” Giovanni Peri, who directs the Global Migration Center at the U , Davis, told me. “It has been hurting the case for immigration because people have only been talking about that, & not talking about all the migrants who have been coming here & working & boosting the #economy.”