U.S. Immigration Policy Has Always Been About Exclusion
The Atlantic America Never Wanted the Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses The U.S. is a diverse nation of immigrants—but it was not intended to be, and its historical biases continue to haunt the present. This article was published online on April 5, 2021. When David Dorado Romo was a boy growing up in El Paso, Texas, his great-aunt Adela told him about the day the U.S. Border Patrol melted her favorite shoes. Romo’s aunt was Mexican and had a visa that allowed her to commute into South Texas for her job as a maid. Every week she had to report to a Border Patrol station, in accordance with a prog...
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