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Echoes of the 1850s in Minnesota
Minnesota faces federal immigration enforcement marked by detentions, shootings, and protests, echoing 1850s resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act, with two killed in recent clashes.
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What ICE Should Have Learned from the Fugitive Slave Act
Jelani Cobb on the historical parallels between the Trump Administration’s paramilitary crackdown on immigrant communities in Minneapolis and the unrest fomented in the years before the Civil War by attempts to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act.
·New York, United States
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Echoes of the 1850s in Minnesota
The public fury resulting from the U.S. government's enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and the Trump administration's immigration policies today are remarkably similar, writes Nick DeLuca. "It’s not an apples-to-apples comparison, but the parallels are striking," he writes.
·Boston, United States
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