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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.
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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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