The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the first to ban a racialized population from entering the United States. It also created this person called the Undocumented Immigrant, and that happens in 1892 with the Geary Act. This is the very first mass deportation system created in the U.S.; it was created to remove a racially targeted population. Now, Chinese immigrants, as all immigrants, have always done fought back. They organized the first mass civil disobedience campaign for immigrants in our country.
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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