immigration

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• 8/2/2020
  

  Constitutional Textualism, Slavery and Undocumented Immigrants

  by Alan J. Singer

  Just reading the Constitutional text, without context, does not help us understand what Antonin Scalia called “the fairly understood meaning of those words.”

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/28/2020
  

  Refugee Resettlement Is Close to Collapse. That Was Trump’s Plan.

  In the 40 years since the program was established, no refugee who has entered the country through the resettlement program has killed anyone in a terrorist attack in the United States. 

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• SOURCE: Labor and Working Class History Association
  7/23/2020
  

  Verónica Martínez-Matsuda on Her New Book, Migrant Citizenship

  "[Farm Security Administration officials and migrant farm laborers] argued that real democracy resulted not only from migrants’ full enfranchisement but also from their daily participation as citizens (regardless of formal status) in a political and social community characterized by collective responsibility and behavior."

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  7/22/2020
  

  The Border Patrol’s Brute Power in Portland is the Norm at the Border

  by Karl Jacoby

  What’s happening in Oregon reflects the long history of unprecedented police powers granted to federal border agents over what has become a far more expansive border zone than most Americans realize. 

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• 7/19/2020
  

  SCOTUS's Thuraissigiam Decision is a Threat to all Undocumented Immigrants

  by Elliott Young

  As Justice Sotomayor wrote in her dissent, a recent decision could “permit Congress to constitutionally eliminate all procedural protections for any noncitizen the Government deems unlawfully admitted and summarily deport them no matter how many decades they have lived here, how settled and integrated they are in their communities, or how many members of their family are U. S. citizens or residents.” 

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• SOURCE: Public Seminar
  7/15/2020
  

  Student Visas (Past Present Podcast, Episode 237)

  The Past Present podcast discusses the recent restrictions on student visas.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/8/2020
  

  Americans Are The Dangerous, Disease-Carrying Foreigners Now

  by Erika Lee

  For centuries, we have been the ones demonizing foreigners as carriers of infectious disease. And we have been the ones banning immigrants in the name of protecting Americans’ public health.

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• 7/12/2020
  

  "The Day I Start Being Free": Detained Migrants Struggle for Human Rights

  by Jana Lipman

  The experiences of Vietnamese refugees in the 1990s, who experienced detention and a bureaucratic process exposing them to dangerous repatriation, are a precedent for the treatment of asylum-seekers in contemporary America.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  7/7/2020
  

  The Cruelty of ICE’s Guidance for International Students

  by Brian Rosenberg

  There is no soft-pedaling this: It is among the most mean-spirited policies we have seen from an administration that embraces meanness every day.

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  7/5/2020
  

  MIT Professor Tunney Lee, an Architect, Urban Planner, and Historian of Chinatown, Dies at 88

  An architecture professor who taught at MIT and the Chinese University of Hong Kong is remembered as a historian of Chinese American community and an advocate for including the public in the process of planning.

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• 7/5/2020
  

  "It Has Not Been My Habit to Yield": Charles Sumner and the Fight for Equal Naturalization Rights

  by Lucy Salyer

  Senator Charles Sumner lost his battle on the Fourth of July 1870, with dire consequences for both Asian immigrant communities and the prospects of a more racially egalitarian America. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  6/22/2020
  

  Britain Celebrates 'Windrush Day' Amid Broader Reckoning on Race

  by Billy Perrigo

  Here's what to know about the history and significance of this British celebration.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  6/23/2020
  

  How 1970s U.S. Immigration Policy Put Mexican Migrants at the Center of a System of Mass Expulsion

  by Adam Goodman

  "90% of the people pushed out of the country during the 20th century were Mexicans deported via a coercive, fast-track administrative process euphemistically referred to as 'voluntary departure,'" writes Adam Goodman.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  6/13/2020
  

  The Surprising Origin of Our Modern Nation of Immigrants

  The landmark 1965 immigration law prioritized family ties, but originally as a way to keep America white.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  5/30/2020
  

  Jared Kushner Is a Know Nothing – Not Just Because He has Failed on so Many Fronts

  by Sidney Blumenthal

  Trump’s son-in-law wants a miniature Republican platform. It is a move with strong parallels – but not to the party of Lincoln

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/22/2020
  

  Immigrant Workers Have Borne the Brunt of COVID-19 Outbreaks at Meatpacking Plants

  by Anya Jabour

  The COVID-19 epidemic should remind us of the hazards faced by immigrant meatpacking workers a century ago, and the labor and industry reforms needed to secure their safety.

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• SOURCE: Urban Milwaukee
  5/26/2020
  

  Wisconsin’s Long History As Swing State

  Wisconsin's status as a swing state in presidential elections is nothing new. It reflects the state's part in major trends in American history including immigration, urbanization, and the rural-urban divide.

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• SOURCE: Counterpunch
  5/22/2020
  

  Greening the Old New Deal

  National service and a green new deal, with lessons from the old new deal, could be the first step in “civilianizing” our nation, and beyond recovery, enhancing the world’s prospects for health, justice, and sustainability.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  

  This Day in History: Coolidge Signs 1924 Immigration Act into Law

  A quota was set that limited immigration to two percent of any given nation’s residents already in the U.S. as of 1890, a provision designed to maintain America’s largely Northern European racial composition.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/25/2020
  

  Donald Trump, Joe Biden and the Vote of the Irish

  The political sympathies of Irish Americans have shifted away from the Democratic party in the decades since John F. Kennedy's presidency.