immigration

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• SOURCE: Salon
  3/17/19
  

  On St. Patrick's Day, remember how anti-immigrant history repeats itself

  33 million Americans claim Irish heritage and yet we have not learned from 19th century nativism. 

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• SOURCE: Process
  3/18/19
  

  Evangelicals and Immigration: A Conflicted History

  by Ulrike Elisabeth Stockhausen

  Before the 1990s, evangelical Christians were busy resettling the newly arrived refugees. 

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• 3/10/19
  

  Robinson Crusoe’s Wall

  by Geoffrey Sill

  We can look to history, especially literary and cultural history, to explain the passionate desire of many Americans to build a wall.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  3/5/19
  

  The American Myth Behind the Border Wall

  by Greg Grandin

  The history of racial and sexual violence on the border. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  3/4/19
  

  40 Years After The Vietnam War, Some Refugees Face Deportation Under Trump

  U.S. officials have been working behind the scenes to convince the Vietnamese government to repatriate more than 7,000 Vietnamese immigrants with criminal convictions.

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• 2/19/19
  

  “National Security Crisis” or “Power Grab”?

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  It’s not the Constitutionality of Trump’s Wall, but Its Morality that Matters

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/15/19
  

  The black men of the Civil War were America’s original ‘dreamers’

  by Colbert I. King

  Like dreamers of today, those black soldiers and sailors also had families and attended churches; some were enrolled in schools. 

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  2/15/19
  

  Historian Ana Raquel Minian Interviewed on How Trump's Wall Rhetoric Changes Lives in Mexico

  Why does America detain so many illegal immigrants and asylum seekers in the first place?

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2/13/19
  

  Immigration: How ancient Rome dealt with the Barbarians at the gate

  by Cavan W. Concannon

  Roman border security was historically effective, not because of massive barriers, but because they knew how to manage the flow of migration.

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• 2/16/19
  

  Whose Country is This? Trump, Coolidge, and Immigration

  by Bruce W. Dearstyne

  It was a central question a century ago, and still is today. President Coolidge and President Trump might have similar answers.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/22/19
  

  Why Trump’s fearmongering about Muslims at the border misses the mark

  by Randa Tawil

  There are Muslims at the border. But they’ve been there since the late 19th century.

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• SOURCE: Rolling Stone
  1/22/19
  

  Six Historians on Why Trump’s Border Wall Won’t Work

  "The more you build walls, the more the other side becomes foreign and you fear it."

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  1/22/19
  

  El Paso museum sheds light on Border Patrol's history, mission

  "For the most part, the museum does a fair job of explaining the agency's metamorphosis."

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• 1/27/19
  

  Trump, Benjamin Franklin, and the Long History of Calling Immigrants "Snakes"

  by Geoffrey Sill

  Trump’s unsupported allegations that immigrants are “animals, not people” may find a popular reception among many Americans because the association between immigrants, criminality, and reptility goes back to a period well before the founding of the nation. 

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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.