Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century

Days after taking the White House, Donald Trump signed three executive orders—these authorized the Muslim Ban, the border wall, and ICE raids. These orders would define his administration’s approach toward noncitizens. An essential primer on how we got here, Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary shows that such barriers to immigration are embedded in the very foundation of the United States. A. Naomi Paik reveals that the forty—fifth president’s xenophobic, racist, ableist, patriarchal ascendancy i...