immigration

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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.

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• 4/7/19
  

  The Long History of Anti-Immigration Legislation and "Crimes Involving Moral Turpitude"

  by Stephanie Hinnershitz

  The Supreme Court's Nielsen v. Preap decision is just the latest example of using this concept to deport immigrants.  

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• 4/7/19
  

  The Original Border Wall

  by Robert T. C. Goodwin

  Spanish Presidios and Mexican Leather-Jackets in 1772

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• 3/31/19
  

  Immigration Restriction by Remote Control

  by Elliott Young

  While much of the coverage of immigration has focused on the Border Wall, we have forgotten that for over 100 years, most immigration restriction has happened beyond the borders of the United States. 

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• 3/26/19
  

  A Heartwarming Lost Chapter on Immigrants Emerges

  by Bruce Chadwick

  Playwright Harelik does not just tell his grandfather’s personal story in The Immigrant; he tells the story, in one way or another of all immigrants.

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  3/25/19
  

  How Experts and Their Facts Created Immigration Restriction

  by Katherine Benton-Cohen

  Facts have a history, and we ought to admit it.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  3/17/19
  

  On St. Patrick's Day, remember how anti-immigrant history repeats itself

  33 million Americans claim Irish heritage and yet we have not learned from 19th century nativism. 

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• SOURCE: Process
  3/18/19
  

  Evangelicals and Immigration: A Conflicted History

  by Ulrike Elisabeth Stockhausen

  Before the 1990s, evangelical Christians were busy resettling the newly arrived refugees. 

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• 3/10/19
  

  Robinson Crusoe’s Wall

  by Geoffrey Sill

  We can look to history, especially literary and cultural history, to explain the passionate desire of many Americans to build a wall.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  3/5/19
  

  The American Myth Behind the Border Wall

  by Greg Grandin

  The history of racial and sexual violence on the border. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  3/4/19
  

  40 Years After The Vietnam War, Some Refugees Face Deportation Under Trump

  U.S. officials have been working behind the scenes to convince the Vietnamese government to repatriate more than 7,000 Vietnamese immigrants with criminal convictions.

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• 2/19/19
  

  “National Security Crisis” or “Power Grab”?

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  It’s not the Constitutionality of Trump’s Wall, but Its Morality that Matters

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/15/19
  

  The black men of the Civil War were America’s original ‘dreamers’

  by Colbert I. King

  Like dreamers of today, those black soldiers and sailors also had families and attended churches; some were enrolled in schools.