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America's mass deportation system is rooted in racism

  • Written by Kelly Lytle Hernandez, Associate Professor, History and African-American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

A rowdy segment of the American electorate is hell-bent on banning a specific group of immigrants from entering the United States. Thousands upon thousands of other people – citizens and immigrants, alike – oppose them, choosing to go to court rather than fulfill the electorate’s narrow vision of what America should look like:...

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