Immigration Control as Counterinsurgency
From KPFA - Against the Grain · 31:47
Show by KPFA
The terrorizing and mass deportations of immigrants under the Trump administration may seem an unprecedented descent into an racist order where Constitutional protections no longer apply. But, as historian Kelly Lytle Hernández argues, from early on the U.S. immigration system was exempted from the guardrails of the Constitution. She illustrates how these laws were put in place first to protect enslavers — and then elites more broadly — from the insurgent radicalism of migrants, starting with the Haitian Revolution. (Full-length interview.) Kelly Lytle Hernández, Racist by Design: Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration Control W. W. Norton, 2026 Photo credit: Fibonacci Blue from Minnesota, USA, CC BY 2.0 The post Immigration Control as Counterinsurgency appeared first on KPFA.
More episodes of KPFA - Against the Grain
More episodes
- Rethinking Capitalism
- Gaza, Yemen, and the Profits of War
- Reining in Trump’s Repressive NSPM-7
- Jared Kushner and the Reshaping of the Middle East
- Wealth, Power, and the Trump Administration
- Anti-Fascism and Southern Marxism
- Justifying Authoritarianism
- Tech Worker Militancy
- Exposing Forever Chemicals
- Criminalizing Protest
PodSearch is a free, independent podcast search engine. Read about PodSearch, the privacy policy or contact us.