immigration

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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.

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• SOURCE: Time
  9/17/19
  

  The History of Citizenship Day Is a Reminder That Being an American Has Always Been Complicated

  by S. Deborah Kang

  “We welcome you,” Truman declared, “not to a narrow nationalism but to a great community based on a set of universal ideals.”

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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.