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The Racist Roots of America’s Incarceration and Immigration Laws

Factually! with Adam Conover

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The Wong Ring, Where's the United States?

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.

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