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Skin Color as a Proxy for Immigration Status?

A troubling report from the Department of Homeland Security immigration raids yesterday, from the Salt Lake (Utah) Tribune. In this case, DHS agents allegedly separated workers by their skin color — light-skinned were considered citizens, dark-skinned got scrutiny. Predicatably, they swept up at least one dark-skinned U.S. citizen up with immigrant workers: Click here for discussion.

KJ