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Episode 185: Nativism in Media (Part II) - The Artificial Cold War Distinction Between 'Migrants' and 'Refugees'

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The American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born

The American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born was founded in 1934 by the ACLU and the American Labor Defense Organization. They were part of a broad popular front of organizations that are organizing along with communist organizers under sort of rhetoric of Americanism. Their leader goes to jail because they're working with the Civil Rights Congress, which is an African American popular front organization. All this stuff happens to them, but they survived the Cold War. And my argument is the reason that they survived is there were always immigrant communities saying, you know, we need a committee for the protection of the foreign borns.

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