Opinion: In the Push to End Plyler, a Blurring of the Truth About English Learners

Not so long ago, Americans were fond of talking about our politics as a modest set of disagreements: “We agree on the ends,” we’d say, “we just argue about the means.” Since the early 2010s, it’s gotten harder to believe. We’ve suffered through the creep of a dynamic known as “epistemic closure,” where conspiracy theor…