The Impact of the Trump's Immigration Executive Orders | KPFA

Host Mitch Jeserich explains the executive orders on immigration signed by president Trump on Day 1 of his administration. Guest: Pedro Rios is the director of the American Friends Service Committee’s U.S./Mexico Border Program.

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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

Operation Wetback and the Bipartisan Legacy of US Deportations | KPFA

Guest: Adam Goodman is a professor of History at the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at the University of Illinois Chicago. He is the author of The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants.

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"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