#antimigrantracism — Public Fediverse posts

#LettersAndPolitics' Mitch Jeserich explores the history of #BirthrightCitizenship, from the #ColoredConventionsMovement to the #14thAmendment, and interviews Pedro Rios, director of the AFSC's US-Mexico Border Program about #Trump's #ExecutiveOrders on #immigration

https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-january-21-2025/
#USpol #USpolitics #ImmigrantRights #UShistory #BlackHistory #PauliMurray #BrownVsBoardOfEd #LatinoHistory #xenophobia #RacializedCommunities #AntiMigrantRacism #MassDeportations

Throughout the last century and a half, "most people have been deported through expedited means in which they've received little to no due process [..] and these have been coercive campaigns that have rounded up Mexicans in particular but many others"

#LettersAndPolitics welcomes #AdamGoodman, author of #TheDeportationMachine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants

https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-january-16-2025/

#UShistory #USpol #LatinoHistory #xenophobia #migrants #AntimigrantRacism #books @bookstodon

"Even before the border was built [..] there were #BorderVigilantes. [..] Monica Muñoz Martinez describes the early-twentieth-century reign of terror carried out by the Texas Rangers [..] Kelly Lytle Hernández argues that during that period, white citizens and law enforcement viewed the violent control of the border as their shared prerogative."

"Death in Nogales"

https://archive.ph/aBFBi
#USpol #USpolitics #vigilantism #BorderMilitarization #migrants #AntiMigrantRacism #RacializedCommunities