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President Trump’s Immigration Suspension Has Nothing to Do With Coronavirus

Restrictionists have long sought to cut U.S. immigration — to zero.
by Carly Goodman via Made By History on April 22, 2020

Detained

How the United States created the largest immigrant detention system in the world.
by Emily Kassie via The Marshall Project on September 24, 2019

The Bloody History of Border Militias Runs Deep — and Law Enforcement Is Part of It

The West's history is full of stories of white Americans taking the law into their own hands to beat back nonwhite populations.
by Ryan Deveraux via The Intercept on May 23, 2019

How Not to Build a “Great, Great Wall”

A timeline of border fortification, from 1945 to the Trump Era.
by Greg Grandin via Tom Dispatch on January 13, 2019

The Border Patrol has Been a Cult of Brutality Since 1924

The U.S. needs a historical reckoning with the true cause of the border crisis: the long, brutal history of border enforcement itself.
by Greg Grandin via The Intercept on January 12, 2019

Pancho Villa, Prostitutes and Spies: The U.S.-Mexico Border Wall’s Wild Origins

President Trump's trip to the border Thursday to demand a $5.7 billion wall marks another chapter in the boundary's tortured history.
by Michael E. Miller via Retropolis on January 10, 2019
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A Wall Can’t Solve America’s Addiction to Undocumented Immigration

For more than 70 years, undocumented immigrants have shaped the American economy.
by Julia G. Young via Made By History on January 9, 2019
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The Year the Clock Broke

How the world we live in already happened in 1992.
by John Ganz via The Baffler on November 5, 2018
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How the Haitian Refugee Crisis Led to the Indefinite Detention of Immigrants

It wasn't always this way.
by Carl Lindskoog via Made By History on April 9, 2018
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Fans of Trump’s Immigration Views Should Remember How Figures Like Him Targeted Their Ancestors

Keeping the Irish poor out of America helped shape our restrictive immigration policies.
by Hidetaka Hiroka via Made By History on January 16, 2018

#ImmigrationSyllabus

A semester-length guide for educators and citizens seeking to understand the history and meaning of immigration in the U.S.
by Erika Lee, María Cristina García, Adam Goodman, Madeline Hsu, Julian Lim, Maddalena Marinari, Evan Taparata via University of Minnesota on January 26, 2017

Fifty Years On, the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act Continues to Reshape the United States

An analysis of the significance, unintended consequences, and implications ofthe 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act fifty years later.
by Muzaffar Chishti, Faye Hipsman, Isabel Ball via Migration Policy Institute on October 15, 2015

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