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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 Reagan Administration's Reactionary Immigrant Taxonomy

The Reagan administration termed those displaced by US funded and orchestrated violence, quote, economic migrants. The devil's standard of migrant classification had real impacts, according to reporting from the Washington Post in May of 1983. During the fiscal year 1982, the rates of asylum applications, acceptance were as follows: 6% of Salvadorians, 7% of Haitians, 26% from Nicaragua,. While the Santanistas were in power, 44% from Ethiopians and 61% from Iranians after the takeover of the anti American regime in 1979.

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