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On February 15, 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt and the Japanese government signed the so-called "Gentlemen's Agreement" to stop the migration of Japanese to the United States. This came about after the organizing of whites on the west coast against Japanese immigration, as whites steadfastly maintained...

Today in Racists

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On February 6, 2014

Texas Attorney General and likely next governor, Greg Abbott: Greg Abbott unveiled his latest policy proposal in Dallas yesterday, a border security proposal that Abbott called his "Securing Texans Plan.".

Perhaps the blackest mark on the Obama Administration has been the significantly harsher enforcement of American immigration law and the subsequent deportation of people, breaking up families. Twelve-year-old Jason Penate spent the holidays hanging close by his father. They picked out a Christmas tree and...

Environment and the Border

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On December 3, 2013

Michelle Chen provides a useful overview of the intertwined environmental and humanitarian disaster of American policies toward the Mexican border. She covers several important issues. To excerpt from her introduction:.

This is just terrible. The US Border Patrol will continue using lethal force against people throwing rocks, as well as people inside vehicles—ignoring a set of recommendations from an independent review of lethal force practices at the agency. Border Patrol Chief Mike Fisher told the...

Walls

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On October 31, 2013

No doubt the solution to drug smuggling tunnels between the U.S. and Mexico is higher border walls. And the drones America's favorite racist Sheriff Joe Arapio wants to deploy to.

Ketchup and Culture Wars

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On October 19, 2013
It's pretty typical that Drudge would invoke the fear of salsa overtaking ketchup as America's favorite condiment in his culture wars. Personally, I say Viva Reconquista. If ketchup is the condiment of the Tea Party, it just confirms everything I already think about it. So...

Brownsville

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On September 19, 2013

César Díaz's essay on the difficulties of growing up in Brownsville and then going off to college from a poor family and then living in white Austin is your read.

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