Immigration Enforcement and the Fugitive Slave Acts: Exploring Their Similarities

Scholarship

Nov 18

The similarities between current immigration policies and the Fugitive Slave Acts provide insight into current enforcement policies and how federal policies should not follow the same patterns that earlier failed to provide equal protection under the law. In both instances, state and federal governments can enact oppressive laws that fail to recognize the humanity of the subjects of the laws.

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Taonga Leslie

Immigration Enforcement and the Fugitive Slave Acts: Exploring Their Similarities

Neglected Stories: The Constitution and Family Values

“We, the people”—not we, the white people—not we, the citizens, or the legal voters—not we, the privileged class— but we, the people—the men and women, do ordain and establish this Constitution”