immigration

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• SOURCE: History Channel
  July 12, 2019
  

  The U.S. Deported a Million of Its Own Citizens to Mexico During the Great Depression

  Up to 1.8 million people of Mexican descent—most of them American-born—were rounded up in informal raids and deported in an effort to reserve jobs for white people.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  7/8/2019
  

  Smithsonian interested in obtaining migrant children's drawings depicting their time in US custody

  "The museum has a long commitment to telling the complex and complicated history of the United States and to documenting that history as it unfolds," according to a statement from the museum

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• SOURCE: Richmond Times-Dispatch
  6/19/19
  

  Can assembling immigrant stories bring change?

  by David A. Taylor

  Each story’s path to citizenship shows “the human cost of our immigration system and what that feels like.”

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• SOURCE: KUOW
  6/28/2019
  

  Why Tom Ikeda, a historian of Japanese Internment, is Protesting Trump Over Immigrant Detention

  When Tom Ikeda, a Seattle historian, learned that 1,400 migrant children will be detained this summer at Fort Sill in Oklahoma, the symbolism hit home.

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• 6/30/19
  

  What to the Refugee Child is the Fourth of July?

  by Ed Simon

  We should revisit Frederick Douglas' famous speech, "What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?" Analyze the rhetoric, the grammar, the syntax, the diction of Douglas’ address, and ask yourself if one iota should be changed in 2019?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/19/19
  

  ‘Never again’ means nothing if Holocaust analogies are always off limits

  by Danya Ruttenberg

  Yes, every situation is different. That doesn’t mean we can’t compare them.

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• SOURCE: Time
  6/21/2019
  

  Detaining Migrant Children at U.S. Military Bases Has Been Done Before

  by Jana Lipman

  The history of Fort Chaffee shows that it’s risky to house refugee populations on a military base.

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• 6/23/19
  

  From "Ghettos" to "Concentration Camps," the Battle over Words

  by Daniel B. Schwartz

  We can and should learn from the Holocaust to fight against racism and dehumanization, mindful of what they can lead to, but we should avoid comparisons that collapse the distance between the Holocaust and current events and result in the trivialization of the former.

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• SOURCE: Latino Rebels
  6/19/19
  

  Don’t Be Outraged They’re Being Called Concentration Camps. Be Outraged They Exist.

  by Eladio Bobadilla

  We should call Trump’s detentions centers what they are: concentration camps.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/12/2019
  

  Geronimo and the Japanese were imprisoned there. Now Fort Sill will hold migrant children — again.

  In recent months, migrant children have been housed in tents; it is unclear what their accommodations will be like at Fort Sill.

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• SOURCE: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  6/7/2019
  

  Georgia history professor’s immigration comments cause stir on social media

  Fang Zhou’s comments are the latest made by faculty members and students at Georgia’s public colleges and universities to come under fire.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/26/19
  

  The Indian Law That Helps Build Walls

  by Maggie Blackhawk

  The Supreme Court’s legal abuse of Native Americans set the stage for America’s poor treatment of many of its vulnerable populations.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/23/19
  

  The Statue of Liberty was created to celebrate freed slaves, not immigrants, its new museum recounts

  Lady Liberty was inspired by the end of the Civil War and emancipation. The connection to immigration came later.

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• SOURCE: Time
  5/20/19
  

  Trump’s New Plan Would Require Immigrants to Pass a Test. Here’s What Happened When the U.S. Tried That Before

  The history of Henry Cabot Lodge and literacy tests. 

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• 5/19/19
  

  What Trump Could Learn About Immigration from Teddy Roosevelt

  by Greg Bailey

  The history of the Gentlemen’s Agreement of 1907.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  5/14/19
  

  The new Statue of Liberty Museum is a quiet paean to America’s embrace of immigrants—but what is there to celebrate?

  The elegant little Statue of Liberty Museum opens to the public later this week and provides, at last, a consolation prize for the tourists who land on Liberty Island each year.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/10/19
  

  How anti-immigrant policies thwart scientific discovery

  by Violet Moller

  By hindering international collaboration, the Trump administration has triggered a “brain drain.”

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  4/16/19
  

  Immigration, Race, and Women’s Rights, 1919 and Today

  by Arnold R. Isaacs

  The comparison couldn’t, in many ways, be grimmer or more telling. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  4/8/19
  

  A Look At The History Of The America Is 'Full' Phrase Trump Has Used A Lot Recently

  That line, our country is full, has a particular resonance for Jews. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  4/5/19
  

  Nixon and Reagan tried closing the border to pressure Mexico – here’s what happened

  by Aileen Teague

  If Trump ever follows through on his threat and puts up a closed sign at the southern border, it wouldn’t be the first time. Twice in the last half-century the U.S. has tried to use the border to force Mexico to bend to America’s will.