Tue. May 28, 2024
Mae Ngai essay in series commissioned by Catherine Ramirez and A. Naomi Paik
Mae Ngai’s essay, “The 100-Year Old Racist Law that Broke America’s Immigration” is part of a series, “The Border Is the Crisis” commissioned by Catherine Ramirez and A. Naomi Paik, where contributors examine the legacy of the Immigration Act of 1924 and the simultaneous launching of the Border Patrol, which, together, inaugurated the most restrictive era of US immigration history until our own.
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