immigration

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• 9/15/19
  

  S.F. History Museum Highlights America’s First Immigration Restriction: The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

  by James Thornton Harris

  An interview with Tamiko Wong, the executive director of the Chinese Historical Society of America Museum about the exhibit Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion.

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• 9/1/19
  

  Restricting Automatic Citizenship to Children Born to Americans Serving Abroad Is Only the Latest Effort by Trump to Dismantle Birthright Citizenship

  by Derek Litvak

  Trump and conservatives are attempting a wholesale constitutional revolution by dismantling birthright citizenship. Here's why birthright citizenship is so historically important. 

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• SOURCE: Contingent Magazine
  8/23/19
  

  No Refuge: Frances Perkins, the Labor Department, and Immigration

  by Rebecca Brenner Graham

  When Congress gave the Secretary of Labor discretion over any immigrant “likely to become a public charge,” they weren’t expecting someone like Frances Perkins.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/29/19
  

  Why anti-immigration politics hurt white workers

  by Inés Valdez

  No, immigrants aren’t taking your job — but vilifying immigrants helps undermine worker protection.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/16/19
  

  Why trying to distinguish between useful and dangerous immigrants always backfires

  by Faith Hillis

  Today’s “good” immigrant can turn into tomorrow’s radical dissident.

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• 8/20/19
  

  Jeff Sessions's Troubling Legacy

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  Unfortunately, Sessions’ ideas and policies live on through Trump adviser Stephen Miller.

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• 8/4/19
  

  When Republicans Encouraged Immigration

  by Jason H. Silverman

  Whereas Trump espouses a “go back where you came from” ideology, Abraham Lincoln endorsed the first, last, and only bill in American history to actually encourage immigration.  

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  8/1/19
  

  Trump’s Venom Against the Media, Immigrants, “Traitors,” and More Is Nothing New

  by Adam Hochschild

  The parallels between 1919 and 2019. 

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• SOURCE: Chicago Tribune
  7/15/19
  

  Chicago’s resistance to ICE raids recalls Northern states’ response to the Fugitive Slave Act

  by Kate Masur

  Almost 170 years later, the Fugitive Slave Act is viewed as one of the most repressive federal laws in all of American history. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  7/22/19
  

  Ellis Island's history casts today's border cruelty in an even harsher light

  by Megan J. Wolff

  Conditions right now are dirtier, more dangerous, and significantly crueler than they ever were at Ellis Island -- most pointedly so where children are concerned.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/21/19
  

  Treating immigrants like criminals has a long history in the United States

  by Melina Juárez Pérez

  “Crimmigration” started well before the Trump administration.

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• 7/21/19
  

  From the Founding Fathers to Trump: Who Can Be an American?

  by Donald J. Fraser

  Correctly charged as a racist statement, Trump's recent tweets also reflect an age-old question in our history: who can be an American?

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• 7/21/19
  

  Do We Want the America of Frederick Douglass or Donald Trump?

  by Walter G. Moss

  Which kind of America do we want? A “composite nation” that takes pride in its ethnic and religious diversity and sets an example for other countries who are fearful of immigrants? Or an America afraid of immigrants, especially if not lily white, Christian ones, as Trump and many of his followers desire?

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  7/15/19
  

  Marshall Plan for Central America would restore hope, end migrant border crisis

  by William Lambers

  The Marshall Plan was key to restoring stability to Europe after WWII. Now, a similar approach must be taken in Central America.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/18/19
  

  How activists can defeat Trump’s latest assault on asylum seekers

  by Carly Goodman, S. Deborah Kang and Yael Schacher

  Immigration activists helped give power to asylum protections once before. They can do it again.

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• SOURCE: NY Review of Books
  7/17/19
  

  Immigration and the New Fugitive Slave Laws

  by Manisha Sinha

  The abolitionists’ protests against the fugitive slave laws, which deprived large groups of people of their liberty and criminalized those who offered assistance to them, should be an inspiration in our dismal times.

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• SOURCE: History
  7/12/2019
  

  The U.S. Deported a Million of Its Own Citizens to Mexico During the Great Depression

  Up to 1.8 million people of Mexican descent—most of them American-born—were rounded up in informal raids and deported in an effort to reserve jobs for white people.

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• SOURCE: ABC News
  7/13/2019
  

  Film airing on PBS recalls city's dark deportation history

  The filming of "Bisbee '17," a documentary about what happened July 12, 1917, was a history lesson for residents recruited to play historical figures in the production filmed exactly 100 years later that weds documentary and collective performance.

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• SOURCE: History Channel
  July 12, 2019
  

  The U.S. Deported a Million of Its Own Citizens to Mexico During the Great Depression

  Up to 1.8 million people of Mexican descent—most of them American-born—were rounded up in informal raids and deported in an effort to reserve jobs for white people.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  7/8/2019
  

  Smithsonian interested in obtaining migrant children's drawings depicting their time in US custody

  "The museum has a long commitment to telling the complex and complicated history of the United States and to documenting that history as it unfolds," according to a statement from the museum