Criminalizing Migration & the Southern Border

view Prezi (https://prezi.com/view/WiHdnILs6G5RRdvYXXLB/)

Lesson Objectives; students should be able to:

T, 11/13 - The Invention of “documentedness” and the rise of “crimmigation” 

• “History of the Undocumented Immigrant,” Lower East Side Tenement Museum 

• “How Immigration Became Illegal:” Democracy Now, interview with Aviva Chomsky, May 30, 2014 

• Foner & Kassinitz (2016) War on Crime and War on Immigrants

• SUGGESTED

  • Blog post on sources of information on undocumented

  • Immigration Reform - Frontline (1h57mins)

  • MPI Unauthorized Immigrant Population Estimates by State

R, 11/15 - US Nativism and “Banning” Immigrants

• Alan M. Kraut, “‘Make America Great Again’--Again?” Center for Migration Studies, January 3, 2017 

• Tyler Anbinder, “Today’s Banned Immigrants Are No Different From Our Immigrant Ancestors,” February 7, 2017, American Historical Association blog 

• “135 Years Ago, Another Travel Ban Was in the News,” New York Times, March 17, 2017 

• “We’ve Been Here Before: Historians Annotate and Analyze Immigration Ban’s Place in History,” The World, Public Radio International, February 1, 2017 

• Alvin Chang and Gina Barton, “The Racist History of US Immigration Policy” (video), Vox, January 15, 2016.

View the NYT article with lots of historical data on migration movements.

Interactive International Migration Map

Additional Resources:

• Forty-one years ago, the US took a big gamble on Vietnamese refugees

• U.S. public seldom has welcomed refugees into country

• This Grocery Store Cleared Its Shelves Of Foreign Foods To Make A Statement About Racism

• CMS's database on undocumented

US Immigration Legislation Online

• 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act

• 1892 Geary Act (extends Chinese exclusion act additional 10 years)

• 1892 Wong Wing v. United States (Bill of Rights Protects Illegal Aliens as well)

• 1917 Immigration Act (aka Asiatic Barred Zone Act)

• 1924 Immigration Act (aka Johnson-Reed Act)

• 1943 Magnuson Act (repeal the Chinese Exclusion Act)

• 1943 Bracero Program

• 1945 War Brides Act

• 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act (McCarran Walter Act)

• 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act (Hart-Cellar Act)