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вЂњWith eloquent prose and masterful storytelling, Reece Jones narrates the hard history of immigration policies of the US settler colonial state that was founded and rooted in white supremacy, from Chinese exclusion to the border wall.вЂќ

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Kendi, National Book AwardвЂ“winning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist This powerful and meticulously argued book reveals that while immigration crackdowns are justified as protecting jobs and workers, theyвЂ™ve always been about saving and protecting the racist idea of a white America.вЂќ вЂњ White Borders is a searing indictment of the US immigration restrictions from Chinese Exclusion through the Trump presidency. JonesвЂ™s greatest contribution is to show the forces that really drove the Trump campaign.вЂќ вЂњReece Jones explores the tragic, ludicrous, and endlessly violent creation and maintenance of AmericaвЂ™s borders. вЂњThe authorвЂ™s ability to connect the dots is impressive-and depressing, since the politics of ethnic hatred persist.вЂќ вЂњA highly recommended, in-depth history of migration that accounts for the lives affected by American border policing and immigration restrictions.вЂќ Through gripping stories and in-depth analysis, Jones explores the connections between anti-immigration hate groups and the Republican Party, exposing the lasting impacts of white supremacist ideas on United States law.

Along the way, we meet a bizarre cast of characters, such as John Tanton, Cordelia Scaife May, and Stephen Miller, who moved fringe ideas about вЂњwhite genocideвЂќ and вЂњrace suicideвЂќ into mainstream political discourse. After the arrival of the first slave ship in 1619, the colonies that became the United States were based on the dual foundation of open immigration for whites from Northern Europe and racial exclusion of slaves from Africa, Native Americans, and, eventually, immigrants from other parts of the world.Д¬onnecting past to present, Jones uncovers the link between the Chinese Exclusion laws of the 1880s, the вЂњKeep America AmericanвЂќ nativism of the 1920s, and the вЂњBuild the WallвЂќ chants initiated by former president Trump in 2016. Racist anti-immigration policies, from the border wall to the Muslim ban, have left many Americans wondering: How did we get here? In a sweeping account, Reece Jones reveals that although the US is often mythologized as a nation of immigrants, it has a long history of immigration restrictions that are rooted in the racist fear of the вЂњgreat replacementвЂќ of whites with non-white immigrants.

The first book to show that immigration laws in the US have always been motivated by racial exclusion and the desire to save the idea of a white America.

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