immigration

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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

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• SOURCE: Richmond Times-Dispatch
  6/19/19
  

  Can assembling immigrant stories bring change?

  by David A. Taylor

  Each story’s path to citizenship shows “the human cost of our immigration system and what that feels like.”

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• SOURCE: KUOW
  6/28/2019
  

  Why Tom Ikeda, a historian of Japanese Internment, is Protesting Trump Over Immigrant Detention

  When Tom Ikeda, a Seattle historian, learned that 1,400 migrant children will be detained this summer at Fort Sill in Oklahoma, the symbolism hit home.

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• 6/30/19
  

  What to the Refugee Child is the Fourth of July?

  by Ed Simon

  We should revisit Frederick Douglas' famous speech, "What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?" Analyze the rhetoric, the grammar, the syntax, the diction of Douglas’ address, and ask yourself if one iota should be changed in 2019?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/19/19
  

  ‘Never again’ means nothing if Holocaust analogies are always off limits

  by Danya Ruttenberg

  Yes, every situation is different. That doesn’t mean we can’t compare them.

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• SOURCE: Time
  6/21/2019
  

  Detaining Migrant Children at U.S. Military Bases Has Been Done Before

  by Jana Lipman

  The history of Fort Chaffee shows that it’s risky to house refugee populations on a military base.

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• 6/23/19
  

  From "Ghettos" to "Concentration Camps," the Battle over Words

  by Daniel B. Schwartz

  We can and should learn from the Holocaust to fight against racism and dehumanization, mindful of what they can lead to, but we should avoid comparisons that collapse the distance between the Holocaust and current events and result in the trivialization of the former.

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• SOURCE: Latino Rebels
  6/19/19
  

  Don’t Be Outraged They’re Being Called Concentration Camps. Be Outraged They Exist.

  by Eladio Bobadilla

  We should call Trump’s detentions centers what they are: concentration camps.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/12/2019
  

  Geronimo and the Japanese were imprisoned there. Now Fort Sill will hold migrant children — again.

  In recent months, migrant children have been housed in tents; it is unclear what their accommodations will be like at Fort Sill.

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• SOURCE: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  6/7/2019
  

  Georgia history professor’s immigration comments cause stir on social media

  Fang Zhou’s comments are the latest made by faculty members and students at Georgia’s public colleges and universities to come under fire.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/26/19
  

  The Indian Law That Helps Build Walls

  by Maggie Blackhawk

  The Supreme Court’s legal abuse of Native Americans set the stage for America’s poor treatment of many of its vulnerable populations.