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• 4/5/2020
  

  Pandemic Exposes Vulnerabilities of Workers on Farms

  by Verónica Martínez-Matsuda

  Defying the broader conservative political forces of the time, the Farm Security Administration extended health care to tens of thousands of migratory agricultural workers because it understood that farmworkers’ health was vital to the nation’s wellbeing.

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• 4/5/2020
  

  US v. Sineneng-Smith Echoes the Fugitive Slave Act

  by Alan J. Singer

  A Supreme Court decision in United States v. Sineneng-Smith that broadens the authority of the federal government to suppress the rights of advocates for undocumented immigrants could divide the nation irreparably.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/31/2020
  

  During the Covid-19 Pandemic, Immigrant Farmworkers are Heroes

  by Eladio Bobadilla

  Tracing Cesar Chavez's transforming views on immigration may shed light on how we can support farmworkers’ rights today.

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• SOURCE: Irish Central
  3/30/2020
  

  Irish Emigrants Tale Told Through Tenement Museum of New York

  Hidden away in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the New York Tenement Museum tells the tale of thousands of Irish families that sailed from Ireland to the United States in search of a better life.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  3/16/2020
  

  This Isn’t the First Time a Virus Caused Social Panic. The Spanish Flu Did Too

  by Gustavo Arellano

  Through letters, newspaper clippings, city council minutes, diaries, and photos, these collections offer lessons from the past that historians say can teach people today about how to confront coronavirus.

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• SOURCE: Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
  3/16/2020
  

  Lawsuit: Ice Must Not Destroy Detainee Records

  NARA approved ICE’s request to begin destroying the records in December 2019, despite ongoing concerns and reports of widespread mistreatment of individuals detained in ICE custody.

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• 1/22/20
  

  The History Behind the Border and Immigrant Detention Centers

  by HNN Staff

  Families are separated at the border and people are indefinitely detained in overcrowded facilties. How a panel at this year's AHA conference examined the history of immigration. 

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• SOURCE: Yes! Magazine
  1/9/20
  

  How Educators Are Rethinking The Way They Teach Immigration History

  Feauting quotes from historian Greg Grandin. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  1/7/20
  

  Historians approve an anti-ICE resolution at AHA

  Historians approve an anti-ICE resolution but vote down anti-Israel proposals at their annual meeting. They also show support for nontenured colleagues.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  12/4/19
  

  Trump’s border wall threatens an Arizona oasis with a long, diverse history

  by Jared Orsi

  Heavy machinery grinds up the earth and removes vegetation as construction of President Trump’s vaunted border wall advances toward the oasis.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/26/19
  

  Trump’s xenophobia is an American tradition — but it doesn’t have to be

  by Erika Lee

  Some have always pushed to keep out immigrants, but people have always fought back, too.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/21/19
  

  Why family separation is so central to Trump’s immigration vision

  by Maddalena Marinari

  Strengthening family ties has been key to overcoming nativism — and in 2020, it can do so again.  

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• SOURCE: Chris Riback's Conversations
  10/18/19
  

  Julie Hirschfeld Davis & Michael D. Shear: Inside Trump’s Assault on Immigration

  by Chris Riback

  But it turns out, the immigration story — the historical American experience and the current realities — serves as an incredibly useful way to consider the entire Trump presidency: Obsession, chaos, fear, depravity, and yet – meaningful, important, and potentially-lasting change that has shifted not only how the world views America, but how we view ourselves.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  11/4/19
  

  When America Tried to Deport Its Radicals

  by Adam Hochschild

  A hundred years ago, the Palmer Raids imperilled thousands of immigrants. Then a wily official got in the way.

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• 11/3/19
  

  Refugees in an Age of Immigration Restrictionism

  by Erik Christiansen

  Each new stage in the Trump administration’s handling of refugees and immigrants invites comparisons to past policies. Usually that means talking about the Obama years, or maybe the 1986 immigration reforms.  But it’s worth looking back further to the restrictionist era of the 1920s and 30s.  

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/14/19
  

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day should mean honoring migrants’ rights

  by Liz Ellis

  People must have a human right to migrate and to move across borders that historically crossed them.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  10/12/19
  

  How Italians Became ‘White’

  by Brent Staples

  Italians who had come to the country as “free white persons” were often marked as black because they accepted “black” jobs in the Louisiana sugar fields or because they chose to live among African-Americans.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/1/19
  

  For 25 years, Operation Gatekeeper has made life worse for border communities

  by Pedro Rios

  The policy of ‘prevention through deterrence’ has been deadly.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/20/19
  

  When Anti-Immigration Meant Keeping Out Black Pioneers

  by Anna-Lisa Cox

  A historical discussion of the the laws created to keep free African Americans out of the Midwest. 

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• SOURCE: Time
  9/17/19
  

  Citizenship Day Used to Be Called 'I Am an American Day.' Here's How It Came to Be—and Why It Changed

  Long before Citizenship Day was made official, there was “I Am An American Day.” Its initial conception was a sign of its times, and its evolution has been significant too.