deportation

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/11/2021
  

  How Should the US Treat Migrants when American Policy Affected the Countries They Fled?

  The Temporary Protected Status designation, which has allowed hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants to remain in the United States, originated because of the massive human rights abuses of the US-supported dictatorship in El Salvador.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/27/2021
  

  Lives Derailed: Notes from Migration Encounters

  by Anita Isaacs and Anne Preston

  "The contributions of immigrants, and the human toll of anti-immigrant policies should take center stage as we renew our national conversation on immigration."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  12/10/2020
  

  Immigration Cruelty Didn’t Start With Trump. Will It End Under Biden?

  by Elliott Young

  There is a long and ignoble history of cruelty toward immigrants in the United States, and the end of the Trump presidency will not change it by itself. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  12/3/2020
  

  A Lesser-Known Trump Immigration Policy Needs Biden’s Attention

  by Smita Ghosh

  Biden should reverse the Trump policy of using "expedited removal" to deport migrants without a hearing, which is part of a historical pattern of deportation programs that harm communities, separate families, and sometimes result in legal residents being expelled from the United States.

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• SOURCE: National History Center
  10/14/2020
  

  Julia Rose Kraut: Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States

  Julia Rose Kraut's "Threat of Dissent" examines major court decisions and legislation affecting the deportation of political radicals in the face of the First Amendment and America's stated ideals, while showing the lives of the people involved. She addressed the National History Center's Washington History Seminar this October.

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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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• Indian Removal

  by Claudio Saunt

  In May 1830, the United States Congress authorized the US federal government to uproot and transport 80,000 people from their homes east of the Mississippi.

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• SOURCE: AHA Perspectives on History
  4/15/2020
  

  Deportation Nation

  Historian Adam Goodman discusses his new book entitled, "The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants."

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• SOURCE: Time
  8/2/2019
  

  Citizens Facing Deportation Isn't New. Here's What Happened When the U.S. Removed Mexican-Americans in the 1930s

  This isn’t the first time U.S. citizens have faced the threat of deportation — and its reality.

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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: Huffington Post
  5-8-17
  

  Trump Administration Cites Segregation-Era Ruling To Defend Its Travel Ban

  In 1971, the Supreme Court decided that courts shouldn’t investigate the motivations of officials who closed public pools rather than integrate them.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  4-30-17
  

  How crossing the US-Mexico border became a crime

  by Kelly Lytle Hernandez

  A new book by historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez reveals that for most of American history immigrants could enter the United States without official permission and not fear criminal prosecution by the federal government. That changed in 1929.

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• 4-2-17
  

  The Red Scare: A Grandparents’ Story that Seems All-too-Relevant in the Age of Trump

  by Jeremy Stern

  My grandparents fled Tsarist Russia to escape persecution for their ideas and their Judaism. They found a far freer nation ‒ but also reminders that freedom is not always secure, even in America.

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment
  3-7-17
  

  Why Trump EO is Still a Racist Muslim Ban

  by Juan Cole

  The way you can tell that the list is generated by prejudice rather than security concerns is that there are plenty of states that are in worse shape than some of the 6 named but which are not Muslim-majority.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  3-5-17
  

  Trump and the Battle Over Sanctuary in America

  To carry out mass deportations, thousands of new immigration and customs agents would be hired, and local police officers and sheriff’s deputies would be recruited. To do that, the president would need the cooperation of state, county and city officials. What if he does not get it?

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3-6-17
  

  America’s Forgotten History of Illegal Deportations

  In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the country carried out a wave of unconstitutional raids that affected as many as 1.8 million people. Is it on the verge of doing so again?

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2-26-17
  

  America’s mass deportation system is rooted in racism

  by Kelly Lytle Hernandez

  Historically speaking, immigration control is one of the least constitutional and most racist realms of governance in U.S. law and life.

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• 1-29-17
  

  Mass Expulsions of Mexican Migrants Are Being Readied without Proper Planning

  by José Angel Hernández

  This undoubtedly will lead to a humanitarian crisis.

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• SOURCE: Al Jazeera America
  1-24-14
  

  How the Deportation Numbers Mislead

  by Adam Goodman

  The U.S. is deporting fewer people — but using harsher tactics.