In this book, Sumana Chattopadhyay analyzes the U.S. migrant busing crisis of 2022 as a case study to explore ideas of nativism, identity politics, divisive rhetorics, and the red-blue-purple political divide, and how these divides are reflected in the media coverage of immigration issues. Chattopadhyay foregrounds the real human beings who have become props in a game of political maneuvering to explore the effects of this media coverage - on both national and local levels - and to illuminate the forces and longterm implications at play in this dynamic.