Omaha World-Herald, “At rally in downtown Omaha, 50 self-described anarchists protest Trump’s immigration policies”
Many people have misconceptions about groups that align with anarchist ideas, said one protester who refused to give his name. “We want to be peaceful — we aren’t here to smash windows or hurt anyone,” he said. “But we will promote militant self-defense for ourselves and our communities.” Continue Reading
Time, “What History Can Tell Us About the Fallout From Restricting Immigration”
Influenced by concerns about the racial “fitness” of Southern and Eastern Europeans, this legislation was also inspired by fears that so-called aliens would import poverty and disease, as well as hostile foreign ideas like anarchism, Bolshevism and Catholicism. Continue Reading
Slate, “Not Who We Are”
By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the American industrial order was challenged by militant labor, socialist, and anarchist movements often led by immigrants, policymaking and intellectual elites clamped down, approaching freedom-seeking immigrants not as transnational partners in liberty, but as sources of disorder, revolt, and danger. Continue Reading
The Villager, “‘No ban! No wall!’ thousands cry at Battery protest”
Black Bloc-type anarchists joined Sunday’s protest in The Battery against the travel ban. Not surprisingly, the anarchists do not support the concept of national borders. Continue Reading
Time, “Congress Tightened Immigration Laws 100 Years Ago. Here’s Who They Turned Away”
Excluded from entry in 1917 were not only convicted criminals, chronic alcoholics and people with contagious diseases, but also people with epilepsy, anarchists, most people who couldn’t read and almost everyone from Asia, as well as laborers who were “induced, assisted, encouraged, or solicited to migrate to this country by offers or promises of employment, […]
The Boston Globe, “Trump’s backers see immigration crackdown as a promise kept”
Other Trump supporters said it was the work of anarchists and professional agitators who have been organized by billionaire liberal philanthropist George Soros or the Muslim Brotherhood. Those well-choreographed protests, they said, do not accurately reflect the broader public sentiment. Continue Reading
Al Jazeera, “Six other times the US has banned immigrants”
3. Anarchists banned President Theodore Roosevelt. Signed on March 3, 1903. In 1903, the Anarchist Exclusion Act banned anarchists and others deemed to be political extremists from entering the US. Continue Reading
The Boston Globe, “Trump’s anti-immigration playbook was written 100 years ago. In Boston.”
Anti-immigrant sentiment grew in response to fears of Bolshevik radicals and the deadly bombings by anarchists — the Islamic terrorists of their day. It reached a fever pitch in 1919 and 1920 with the Palmer Raids, the mass arrests and deportations of thousands of Eastern European immigrants. A key tool in those roundups had been […]