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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

The WWII Incarceration of Japanese Americans Stretched Beyond U.S. Borders

The U.S. government orchestrated the roundup of people of Japanese descent in 12 Latin American countries, citing “hemispheric security."
by Erika Lee via TIME on December 4, 2019
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Why Forbidding Asylum Seekers From Working Undermines the Right to Seek Asylum

A new Trump administration proposal would undermine the rights of all workers and harm asylum seekers.
by Yael Schacher via Made By History on November 18, 2019

The Immigration Crisis Archive

How did today's bipartisan understanding of immigration—as an intolerable threat that justifies any means to stop it—take hold?
by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández via Public Books on October 25, 2019

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

No Refuge

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.
by Rebecca Brenner Graham via Contingent on August 23, 2019

Evangelicals and Immigration: A Conflicted History

Before the 1990s, evangelical Christians were busier resettling newly arrived refugees than trying to keep them out.
by Ulrike Elisabeth Stockhausen via Process: A Blog for American History on March 18, 2019

Sanctuary and the City

Since the 1980s, activists in Philadelphia have argued that the city has always been a refuge for asylum seekers.
by Domenic Vitiello via The Metropole on March 6, 2019
A private security guard throws a soccer ball back inside the Tornillo detention camp for migrant teens in Tornillo, Texas, Dec. 13, 2018.

A Historian on How Trump’s Wall Rhetoric Changes Lives in Mexico

The U.S. did not always find it necessary to lock up people seeking asylum.
by Ana Raquel Minian, Isaac Chotiner via The New Yorker on February 15, 2019
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For Private Prisons, Detaining Immigrants Is Big Business

Today, despite their mixed record, private prison companies are overseeing the vast majority of undocumented migrants.
by Sarah Weiser, Noah Madoff, Anne Checler via Retro Report on October 1, 2018
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The Long History of Deportation Scare Tactics at the U.S.-Mexico Border

The precedents for Trump’s hyped-up immigration crackdown.
by Kelly Lytle Hernández, Cora Currier via The Intercept on February 26, 2017

What the Mass Deportation of Immigrants Might Look Like

Operation Wetback didn't merely enforce immigration law-it enforced the idea that American citizens are white.
by Shannon Keating via Slate on November 16, 2016
Migrants holding their shoes, being inspected.

America's Forgotten History Of Mexican-American 'Repatriation'

During the Depression, more than a million people of Mexican descent were deported. Author Francisco Balderrama says that most were American citizens.
via NPR on September 10, 2015

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