Comment on An Explosive Government Report Exposed Family Separations and Other Immigration Horrors—in 1931

An Explosive Government Report Exposed Family Separations and Other Immigration Horrors—in 1931

It doesn’t take longer than the table of contents to realize how much has stayed the same. “Separation of families.” “Invasion of personal rights.” “Illegal searches and seizures.” “Despotic powers of the administrative agency.” These section headings come from a 1931 US government report on the state of America’s deportation machine. In 1929, President Herbert Hoover tasked former attorney general George Wickersham with producing a series of reports on law enforcement in the United States.

 

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