immigration

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• 7/25/2021
  

  Explaining the Different Post-Colonial Trajectories of Ireland and Haiti

  by Alan J. Singer

  "The divergent paths of Haiti and Ireland are rooted in the history of 19th century European colonialism, European and American racism, and the very different alternatives offered to the people of the former colonies for the last two hundred plus years."

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  7/18/2021
  

  Migration Is Not the Crisis

  by Aviva Chomsky

  Migration from Central America is rooted in American support for exploitative oligarchies and export-oriented industry under the guises of anticommunism and economic development. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  7/8/2021
  

  The Root Cause of Central American Migration? The United States

  by Aviva Chomsky

  Joe Biden's pledge to pay attention to the conditions in Central America that are driving migration is a good start, but policy needs to be based in a recognition that those conditions have been created by the economic and military influence of the United States. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  6/28/2021
  

  Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s #Pride Tweet Conceals a Violent History

  by Jessica Ordaz and Alejandra Portillos

  "ICE’s message, that immigration enforcement and LGBTQ equality can be compatible, is dangerous because it conceals a violent history of immigration enforcement that has targeted and harmed LGBTQ people in the name of policing borders."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/11/2021
  

  As Immigration Politics Changed, So Did "In the Heights"

  by A. K. Sandoval-Strausz

  The film release of Lin-Manuel Miranda's "In the Heights" reflects the way the show has evolved in response to the shifting politics of immigration and nativism in the United States. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  6/17/2021
  

  There’s No LGBTQ Pride Without Immigrants

  by Julio Capó, Jr.

  Today's LGBTQ movement must recall its roots in the defense of marginalized groups against state power. Today, LGBTQ immigrants including the undocumented are among the most vulnerable. 

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• 6/20/2021
  

  Should Immigration Courts Operate under the Attorney General? History Says this is an Accident that Should be Undone

  by Alison Peck

  Franklin Roosevelt was pushed fear of a Nazi fifth column and big business's hostility toward foreign-born labor leaders to shift immigration courts from the Department of Labor to the Department of Justice, where they act as an extension of law enforcement. Legislation to make them independent is long overdue. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  6/1/2021
  

  Biden Will Allow Undocumented Students To Access Pandemic Relief

  by Sarah R. Coleman

  The reversal of the Trump administration's exclusion of the undocumented from aid programs helping students meet basic needs is one step toward reconsidering the connection between immigration policy and the American social safety net, where students have often been on the front lines. 

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• 5/30/2021
  

  In 1844, Nativist Protestants Burned Churches in the Name of Religious Liberty

  by Zachary M. Schrag

  Rick Santorum's dismissive take on Native American history led to his ouster at CNN. But his remarks also glossed over a violent history of Protestant intolerance that should be a warning to us today about the danger of the idea that only one creed is truly American.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  5/16/2021
  

  Mexico Faces Up to Uneasy Anniversary of Chinese Massacre

  The 1911 massacre of Chinese laborers in the town of Torreón shows that Asian migrants were subjected to mass violence throughout the Americas. The Mexican government and society have only recently begun to acknowledge this and other incidents.  

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/17/2021
  

  Tucker Carlson’s Cries about Immigrants

  by Zachary M. Schrag

  Before Tucker Carlson, Samuel Morse was the nation's leading anti-immigrant troll. And, like Carlson, he attributed evils to Catholic immigrant voters that simply reflected the day's political culture, shared by native-born and immigrant Americans. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/19/2021
  

  The Century-Old Law That Inaugurated Biden’s Border Problems

  by Reece Jones

  This week marked the centennial of the Emergency Quota Act, which established racist quotas for immigration and continues to make immigration policy a political and humanitarian nightmare.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/12/2021
  

  The U.S. Role in the El Mozote Massacre Echoes in Today’s Immigration

  by Nelson Rauda and John Washington

  Renewed efforts to prosecute the perpetrators of the 1981 El Mozote massacre of Salvadoran civilians during the civil war will further demonstrate American involvement in the perpetuation of inequality and violence in Central America and, the authors argue, the hypocrisy of US immigration policy. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  5/7/2021
  

  How the Modern NRA Was Born at the Border

  by Sierra Pettengill and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  Sierra Pettengill's new short documentary "The Rifleman" connects racist violence at the US-Mexico border and the politics of influential NRA leader Harlon Carter, who for decades concealed the fact that he was convicted at age 17 of murder for shooting a Mexican youth in Laredo. She discusses that story with historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  5/10/2021
  

  The First Asian American Settlement Was Established by Filipino Fishermen

  The first Asian American settlement in what is now the United States was by Filipino sailors and indentured servants who escaped from Spanish ships in the Gulf of Mexico and established settlements in Louisiana. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/5/2021
  

  Thirty Years after Mount Pleasant Erupted, a Push for Better Treatment Persists

  by Mike Amezcua

  Central American refugees living in Washington's Mount Pleasant neighborhood had fled US-backed repression but found harsh treatment by immigration authorities and local police. In 1991 frustration erupted. Today, the unrest still raises questions about citizenship and belonging. 

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  4/29/2020
  

  ‘I’ve Lost Everything to the Beast’: Reviewing 4 Books on MS-13

  by Rachel Nolan

  While the specter of the MS-13 gang has been central to political panics about immigration, the group's origins are American. A Latin American historian reviews four new books. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/26/2021
  

  My Grandparents’ Immigration Lies Shaped My Father’s View of Justice

  by Daniela Gerson

  "My father knew all too well what happens when legal pathways do not exist for people to enter this country: They find alternative ways in, just as his own family had."

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  4/28/2021
  

  The Original Sin of America’s Broken Immigration Courts

  A decision made by Franklin Roosevelt to move immigration services from jurisdiction of the Department of Labor to the Department of Justice laid the groundwork for criminalizing immigration and for abusive practices that came to light in the most recent administration. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/21/2021
  

  Racism Has Always Been Part of the Asian American Experience

  by Mae Ngai

  Anti-Asian racism draws from different historical origins than Jim Crow, but their histories are part of the same conflict: whether White Americans are entitled to rule over other people, domestically or globally.