The Squad

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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: New York Times
  8/8/2019
  

  ‘The Squad’ Is the Future of the Democratic Party

  by Barbara Ransby

  You can credit social movements for that.

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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: The Atlantic
  7/18/19
  

  What Americans Do Now Will Define Us Forever

  by Adam Serwer

  "I want to be very clear about what the country saw last night, as an American president incited a chant of “Send her back!” aimed at a Somali-born member of Congress: America has not been here before."

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• SOURCE: Madman of Chu
  7/18/19
  

  An Open Letter to President Donald Trump

  by Andrew Meyer

  "With your recent racist campaign of provocations and agitation, you are stirring the same passions and leading us down the path to the same end. You cannot claim ignorance of the consequences of your actions a second time."

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/15/19
  

  Trump’s America Is a ‘White Man’s Country’

  by Jamelle Bouie

  His racist idea of citizenship is an old one, brought back from the margins of American politics.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/18/19
  

  Citizenship once meant whiteness. Here’s how that changed.

  by Ariela Gross and Alejandro de la Fuente

  Free people of color challenged racial citizenship from the start.