Fear and Expulsion: Under Trump, History Is Poised to Repeat Itself

As the United States embarks on “mass deportation,” Kate Morrissey in Capital and Main takes a look through history of harsh immigration enforcement measures shaped by racism and xenophobia.  “Over its history, the United States has repeatedly worked to exclude and remove people in moments when xenophobic, nativist and white supremacist voices have been able to sway public opinion toward fear, including the exclusion of Chinese immigrants, forced removals of Mexicans and Mexican Americans and the relocation and incarceration of Japanese and Japanese Americans. The result of those efforts was often generational trauma, with elders unable to talk about what they went through . . . .”

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