Post 6: Immigration History 101

● 1807: Congress bans the importation of slaves into the U.S.
o Southern states largely ignore the law

Picture caption:
The Petition for Abolishing the Slave-Trade. ‘Come, listen to my plaintive ditty,/Ye tender hearts, and children dear!/And, should it move your souls to pity,/Oh! try to end the griefs you hear.’ From Ameilia Opie “The Black Man’s Lament; or How to Make Sugar”, London, 1826. (Photo by: Photo 12/UIG via Getty Images)

**Program created by Ana Rodriguez-BorderLinks’ (Tucson AZ)**

Cool Immigrant of the day: 
Levi Strauss (Germany → US): Strauss founded the first company to ever sell blue jeans. Fact: Before Levi’s made jeans it made tents.

Post 5: Immigration History 101

● 1798: Alien and Sedition Act
o Allows the President to arrest, imprison or deport any non-citizen “dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States”

Cool Immigrant of the day: 
Steve Chen (Taiwan→ US) co-founder of Youtube.

Cartoon: Literary Digest, 7/5/19. Originally from the Chicago Tribune (Orr). Via Baruch College

**This program was created by Ana Rodriguez-BorderLinks’ (Tucson AZ) Program Organizer**

Post 4: Immigration History 101

**This program was created by Ana Rodriguez-BorderLinks’ (Tucson AZ) Program Organizer**

● 1790: Naturalization Law
o Explicitly racial criteria limit naturalized citizenship to “free, white persons of good moral character”
o Law passed to prevent American Indians, slaves, and free blacks from becoming citizens
o “Free, white persons” provision not repeated until 1952 (McCarran-Walter Act)

Cool Immigrant of the day: Dikembe Mutombo (Democratic Republic of Congo) An NBA player for 18 seasons, Mutombo is known as the best shot-blocker of all time

Cartoon by C.J. Taylor, Puck Magazine

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● 1619: Slavery Reaches the North American continent
o The first Shipload of enslaved Africans arrive in Jamestown, Virginia.
o More than 100 years earlier, in 1501, the first shipload of enslaved Africans arrived in the “New World” in Santo Domingo the capital of the Dominican Republic.

(Immigrant du jour: Hamdi Ulukaya – CEO of the Chobani Greek Yoghurt)

Immigration History
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● 1492: Genocide of indigenous peoples begins with Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the Americas. U.S. Mexico-border region is inhabited by many Native American groups who have lived in the area for centuries.

(Immigrant of the day: Eddie Van Halen)

It is brain dump time! In February I spent a week at the “wall” learning about border issues. Not sure what to do with all this info in my head-so I have decided to share with YOU for 62 days. Just the facts about our immigration history- most of which we did not learn in school. 
(And art that goes with it.)

This series was originated by Ana Rodriguez – the BorderLinks’ (Tucson AZ)

Cartoon by: Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons via caglecartoons.com

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● < 1492: Millions of indigenous people living in the Americas.