immigration

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/18/19
  

  The dangerous myth propping up Trump’s wall

  by Melissa J. Gismondi

  The president leverages a savage threat to white women to justify his pet project.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/16/19
  

  How the Klan Fueled Prohibition

  by Lisa McGirr

  The 1920s weren’t just gin joints and jazz. Anti-immigrant racism was all the rage.

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• SOURCE: Snopes
  Accessed 1/16/19
  

  Snopes: Did Clifford Walker Say at a 1924 KKK Rally That He Would Build a ‘Wall of Steel’ Against Immigrants?

  The quote spread across the Internet, stripped of its context and in meme form, prompting some readers to query whether the quote and its description were real.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  1/13/19
  

  How Not to Build a “Great, Great Wall”

  A Timeline of Border Fortification

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/10/10
  

  The history of U.S. border apprehensions

  Following President Trump’s nationally televised plea to build a border wall, we look at the modern history of the arrest of migrants attempting to enter the United States without authorization.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/9/19
  

  The hole in Donald Trump’s wall

  by Tore Olsson

  As long as Americans continue to flood into Mexico, the wall will do little to deter crossings.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/9/19
  

  A wall can’t solve America’s addiction to undocumented immigration

  by Julia G. Young

  For more than 70 years, undocumented immigrants have shaped the U.S. economy.

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• 1/8/19
  

  What Historians Are Saying About the Wall, the Shutdown, and Trump's Primetime Speech

  A curated collection of Tweets and articles from across the web. 

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1/5/19
  

  No, Trump Cannot Declare an ‘Emergency’ to Build His Wall

  by Bruce Ackerman

  If he did, and used soldiers to build it, they would all be committing a federal crime.

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• 12/30/2018
  

  A Century Ago We Came Up with an Imaginative Way of Dealing with Refugees

  by Michael Goodyear

  Why can’t we do it again?

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• Separating Children from Their Parents Is an Anglo-American Tradition

  by Jeremy Seabrook

  We need to face facts.

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment
  12-12-2018
  

  Top 6 Reasons Dems shouldn’t Allocate a single Cent for Trump’s Idiotic Wall

  by Juan Cole

  Beyond the problem that Trump repeatedly asserts things that are patently untrue on the immigration issue, the fact of the matter is that Democrats need to stand up to him if they are to vindicate themselves.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-10-2018
  

  A Short History of Political Red Faces Over Workers Without Green Cards

  The news that a New Jersey golf course owned by President Trump had been employing undocumented immigrants as housekeepers was far from the first such revelation about a prominent public official.

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• SOURCE: Daniel Pipes Blog
  11-17-2018
  

  Daniel Pipes warns that droughts in the Middle East are driving immigration

  "Tens and hundreds of millions of people will want to leave the Middle East and Africa; where will they want to go to? Mostly to the West: especially Europe, the United States, Canada, and Australia."

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• SOURCE: AP
  11-22-18
  

  Border town invaded by Pancho Villa rejecting talk of troops

  A small New Mexico border town once attacked by Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa is rejecting talk of a wall and troops while embracing its legacy to draw tourists.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  11-8-18
  

  Would George Washington embrace the migrant caravan?

  Our first president offered asylum as one of America’s assets. Repeatedly.

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• 11/11/18
  

  The Militarization of the US-Mexico Border is Not a New Idea

  by Aaron Brown

  It started with Nixon.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  11-5-18
  

  I was a refugee. I know Trump is wrong.

  by Max Boot

  Historian Max Boot cites facts and his own experience in repudiating Trump’s view of refugees.

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• 11/18/18
  

  The Striking and Disturbing Parallel Between the 1930s and Our Own Time

  by Tom Krentzin

  In the wake of economic turmoil leaders exploited deep fears on their way to power.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  10-30-18
  

  How a business-first foreign policy triggered the migration caravans

  by Arica L. Coleman

  Two centuries of U.S. intervention have destabilized Central America.