On May 17th, 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court issued several rulings. One of them was this Wong Ring where's the United States. Another one is one which your listeners will be very familiar. Plessy V. Ferguson created racial segregation. The same court and culture that gave us Jim Crow America also gave us our immigration regime.
MacArthur fellow and UCLA professor, Kelly Lytle Hernández, joins Adam to explain how explictly racist policies of the past created the incarceration and immigration systems we still have today.
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