Josè Alamillo

Guest column: Essential but disposable — the cruel paradox of farmworker raids As a historian, the recent raids in the fields of Ventura County brought to mind decades of similar actions in this country’s history with immigration.

I wrote this article while witnessing ICE raids near my campus and talking to my father about his deportation experience.

Loved working with @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social on this piece. If you have thoughts on it, let's discuss!

Trump May Wish to Abolish the Past. We Historians Will Not. Commentary from the heads of two prominent historical associations on Trump’s recent executive order on “radical indoctrination” in schools.

"What our profession most definitely does not believe is that the primary purpose of history is to instill a single notion of 'patriotic education' in our youth about 'our incredible Nation,' as the order demands."

Correct. Trump wants propaganda, not history.

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AHA–OAH Statement on Executive Order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling” The American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians (OAH) have released a joint statement on the presidential executive order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooli...

The AHA & the @oah.org have released a joint statement on the presidential executive order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling.” “We reject the premise that it is ‘anti-American’ or ‘subversive’ to learn the full history of the United States.” 🗃️

There Is No Such Thing as the “Latino Vote” Colonialism and racism fueled the invention of “Latino” as a category and continue to distort U.S. politics today.

My article on the #latinx vote just came out today @hammerandhope.bsky.social hammerandhope.org/article/lati...

Exactly. Push back back the deadline

In the Shadow of the Law: The Hanigan Case and the Genesis of the Immigrant Rights Movement One August afternoon in 1976, a group of men building a fence on a family ranch in Agua Prieta, Mexico, looked up to see a young man limping toward them. N

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My JAH article on how anti-immigrant violence in the borderlands contributed to the human rights movement: the Hanigan case shows us the ways undocumented people and their advocates have defended migrants’ human and civil rights in the face of unspeakable violence

Immigrants’ Resentment Over New Arrivals Helped Boost Trump’s Popularity With Latino Voters Across the U.S., Latino immigrants who’ve been in the country a long time felt that asylum-seekers got preferential treatment. “Those of us who have been here for years get nothing,” said one woman fr...

This is a divide and conquer strategy to pit undocumented immigrants against asylum-seekers

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Opinion: Trump's border czar and a history we should not forget The next administration is gearing up for mass deportations. When 'repatriation' happened in Los Angeles nearly a century ago, U.S. citizens were expelled.

An important reminder by Natalia Molina about the power of Grassroots activism to push back against mass deportations at the local level