seriesofnonsequiturs:

bipolar-bubbeleh:

ICE are fucking nazis. That goes without saying. Many of the tactics used by the ICE are directly lifted from fascist Germany. But this isn’t German history, this is American history playing itself out again. Calling immigration an “infestation” is directly linked to the racist anti-immigrant sentiment that inspired the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882), Immigration Act of 1891, the Geary Act, the Immigration Act of 1903, the Naturalization Act of 1906, the Immigration Act of 1907, the Immigration Act of 1917 (also known as Barred Zone Act), the Emergency Quota Act (1921), and the Immigration Act of 1924.

It is important to contextualize ICE within American contexts because otherwise it implies that this is a brand new phenomenon and, frankly, it isn’t. America was built on these kinds of institutions and continues to depend on them to this day. Americans don’t need to look across the Atlantic to understand what is happening. We have to be willing to take a real, good look at our own history.

The Nazis were students of America’s worst racial atrocities  [Washington Post]

“In the early twentieth century the United States was not just a country with racism,” writes Yale law professor James Whitman in his book “Hitler’s American Model.” “It was the leading racist jurisdiction — so much so that even Nazi Germany looked to America for inspiration.”

“Whitman traces the substantial influence of American race laws on the Third Reich. The book, in effect, is a portrait of the United States assembled from the admiring notes of Nazi lawmakers, who routinely referenced American policies in the design of their own racist regime.”