Victoria Namkung: tRump’s #Ice raids recall a painful past for these Americans: ‘I see myself in those children’. Survivors of previous eras of xenophobia say the harms done have lasted generations – and what’s happening now threatens to do the same.

#trump #immigration #ChineseExclusionAct #ChineseAmericans #JapaneseInternment #WWII #JapaneseAmericans #UFW #MexicanAmericans #labor #resistance
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/13/ice-raids-immigrants-generations

The land of immigrants… with a lock on the door.

In the late 1800s, U.S. immigration policy was built to exclude — and it didn’t whisper.

From racial bans to literacy tests, the law wasn’t blind — it was strategic.

🔗 https://brewminate.com/early-american-immigration-policies-from-the-late-nineteenth-century/

#Brewminate #History #ImmigrationPolicy #USHistory #ChineseExclusionAct

We explore the shadows of #CanadianHistory in Jacqueline Louie's 1st #Roamancing article and the Chinese Canadian Museum's inaugural exhibition in #Vancouver, BC. The #PaperTrail shares the stories of #ChineseCanadians from the #ChineseExclusionAct where Jacqueline discovers her own family's history.

https://roamancing.com/2024/11/paper-trail-project-canadian-history-at-the-chinese-canadian-museum-in-vancouver/

#ChineseCanadianMuseum #HistoryTravels #TMACtravel

"...the #ChineseExclusionAct slowed economic growth in western states until at least 1940."

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/31/1211597550/the-u-s-once-banned-chinese-immigrants-and-it-paid-an-economic-price