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A Crime by Any Name

The Trump administration’s commitment to deterring immigration through cruelty has made horrifying conditions in there inevitable.

by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on July 3, 2019

‘Some Suburb of Hell’: America’s New Concentration Camp System

The longer a camp system stays open, the more likely it is that vital things will go wrong.

by Andrea Pitzer via New York Review of Books on June 21, 2019

Immigrants after their arrival in Ellis Island by ship in 1902.

Not So Evident

How experts and their facts created immigration restriction.

by Katherine Benton-Cohen via Perspectives on History on March 25, 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

The Only Real Solution to the Border Crisis

The United States must devise a program that addresses the root causes of migration.

by Chris Deutsch via Made By History on March 11, 2019

How Violent American Vigilantes at the Border Led to Trump’s Wall

From the 80s onwards, the borderlands were rife with paramilitary cruelty and racism. But the president’s rhetoric has thrown fuel on the fire.

by Greg Grandin via The Guardian on February 28, 2019

Migrant Children in Custody: The Long Battle for Protection

The number of detained migrant youth has reached record highs and led to lawsuits over the Trump government’s treatment of minors.

by Sarah Weiser, Noah Madoff via Retro Report on February 20, 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

How the U.S. Weaponized the Border Wall

The borderlands have “been transformed into a vast graveyard of the missing.”

by Greg Grandin via The Intercept on February 10, 2019

Manufacturing Illegality

Historian Mae Ngai reflects on how a century of immigration law created a crisis.

by Mae Ngai, Peter Costantini via Foreign Policy in Focus on January 16, 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

Border patrol guarding a group of men sitting on the ground.

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

What We Get Wrong About the “Poor Huddled Masses”

We can’t fix our immigration policy without understanding its history.

by Christopher F. Petrella via Made By History on December 18, 2018

Image of Hassan, a Syrian-American man

Syrian in Sioux Falls

In the 1920s, Syrian-Americans were compelled to prove their worth in a society where nativism was on the rise and citizenship often meant being considered white.

by Chris Gratien via Ottoman History Podcast on November 5, 2018

How US Policy in Honduras Set the Stage for Today’s Migration

When creating ethical immigration policy, it is important to consider the history of U.S. relations with countries like Honduras.

by Joseph Nevins via The Conversation on October 25, 2018

Sentinel

From the day it was inaugurated, the Statue of Liberty has symbolized the tensions between national independence and universal human rights.

by Francesca Lidia Viano via Places Journal on October 1, 2018

Welcome to New York

Remembering Castle Garden, a nineteenth-century immigrant welfare state.

by Brendan P. O'Malley via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 12, 2018

Fracturing Landscapes: A History of Fences on the U.S.-Mexico Divide

History tells us that Trump's proposed wall will not work, and that it will do more damage than good.

by Mary Mendoza via OUPblog on September 4, 2018

Pretending Not to Discriminate in the Name of National Security

America has always discriminated in the name of national security. It’s just gotten better at pretending it’s not.

by Paul A. Kramer via Slate on June 29, 2018

From Mooktie to Juan: The Eugenic Origins of the 'Defective Immigrant'

How eugenics shaped America's immigration policy.

by Aparna Nair via Nursing Clio on June 28, 2018

Donald Trump's Grandfather Came to the U.S. as an Unaccompanied Minor

President Trump's grandfather made the choice to leave his German family for the U.S. all the way back in 1885.

by Kristine Phillips via Retropolis on June 27, 2018

The Raging Controversy at the Border Began With This Incident 100 Years Ago

In Nogales, Arizona, the United States and Mexico agreed to build walls separating their countries.

by Rachel St. John via Smithsonian on June 26, 2018

Trumpism, Realized

To preserve the political and cultural preeminence of white Americans against a tide of demographic change, the administration has settled on a policy of systemic child abuse.

by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on June 20, 2018

Why It’s Fair to Compare the Detention of Migrants to Concentration Camps

Not every concentration camp is Auschwitz. The term is much older.

by Jonathan M. Katz via Slate on June 20, 2018

Laura Bush and Michelle Obama.

Why Laura Bush Speaking Up on Separating Families Matters So Much

The language that has long been critical to covertly mobilizing activism.

by Jim Downs via Made By History on June 20, 2018

Religious Groups Are Fighting Trump to Keep Families Together

But they didn’t always oppose ripping kids from their parents.

by William S. Cossen via Made By History on June 19, 2018

The End of Civil Rights

The attorney general is pushing an agenda that could erase many of the legal gains of modern America's defining movement.

by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on June 18, 2018

Jeff Sessions.

The Fight to Define Romans 13

Jeff Sessions used it to justify his policy of family separation, but he’s not the first to invoke the biblical passage.

by Lincoln Mullen via The Atlantic on June 15, 2018

Refugee to Detainee: How the U.S. is Deporting Those Seeking a Safe Haven

Since the 1994 Crime Bill signed into law by Bill Clinton, refugees have been deported in droves. And Southeast Asians are being targeted.

by Thi Bui via The Nib on June 13, 2018

Pat Buchanan surrounded by balloons at a campaign rally.

Trumpism Before Trump

The popular Trump rhetoric of demonizing immigrants has been procured for decades.

by Calvin Terbeek, Robert L. Tsai via Boston Review on June 11, 2018

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