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U.S. Anti-Black Immigration Policies are The Afterlife of Slavery
By: Gabrielle Thomas1 and Denisse Córdova Montes In 1808, the U.S. abolished the transatlantic slave trade, but today, the semiotics of the slave ship continues through forced movements and separations of migrants and refugees. Slave codes sustained through immigration laws…