Thread by @chefcarney

Can we all have a serious bipartisan conversation around the history of immigration in America and it’s impact on #ADOS? The Immigration Act of 1864 was one of Lincoln’s most signature pieces of legislation prior to the #EmacipationProclomation of 1865.

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“This law legalized and bureaucratized labor recruitment practices similar to indentured servitude to encourage immigration to the United States and economic development.”

“Although many poor Europeans had arrived as indentured servants during the colonial period, the practice had ended in the 1820s.”Congress repealed this law in 1868 after protests by labor organizations.

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The “first wave” of exploitative immigration policies by President Lincoln’s Administration were meant to combat the “free labor” (slave labor) movements in Southern states and territories.

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Lincoln’s response to the “free labor” (slave labor) movement was indentured servitude for Europeans instead of #Reparations for American Descendants of Slavery. Southern lawmakers passed the Alien Contract Labor Law’ to preserve the exploitation of labor
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Black(#ADOS) sharecroppers were eventually forced off of plantations during the Great Depression. The @AFLCIO and other pro labor organizations failed to advocate on behalf of the Southern Tenant Farmers’s Union during the #NewDeal.

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President Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law on May 20, 1862 to incentivize the migration of European settlers to the West.

These policies are how WestEuropean ethnicities were “made white” during #Reconstruction and #JimCrow. “However this “alliance of the oppressed” did not happen. The Irish supported the continuance of slavery, turning their backs on the Abolitionist causes

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“The act, which took effect January 1, 1863, granted 160 acres (65 hectares) of unappropriated public lands to anyone who paid a small filing fee and agreed to work on the land and improve it, including by building a residence, over a five-year period.”

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The “second wave” of exploitative immigration policies came in the form of the bipartisan Immigration Act of 1964. The premise of this legislation was to abolish the previous Natural Origins Formula which had been the basis of Us Immigration Policy since 1920.

Bipartisan lawmakers sought to expand cheap labor to more than Western Europeans countries. These exploitative immigration policies have historically undermined the socioeconomic interests of American Descendants of Slavery.

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“Historians have generally agreed that one of the great tragedies of #Emancipation and #Reconstruction was the failure to provide economic security to the ex-slave”. #ADOS #LineageMatters #Reparations

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“With the surrender of Confederate armies and the capture of Jefferson Davis in the spring of 1865, pressing questions demanded immediate answers. On what terms would the nation be reunited? What was the status of the former Confederate states”?

“How would citizenship be defined in the postwar nation? Were the former slaves American citizens now? When and how would former Confederates regain their American citizenship? What form of labor would replace slavery”?

“#Reconstruction was a period when American waged a sustained debate over who was an American, what rights should all Americans enjoy, and what rights would only some Americans possess. In short, Americans engaged in a strenuous debate about the nature of freedom and equality.”

“The nation’s approximately four million African Americans, of whom roughly 3.5 million had been enslaved, were at the center of each of these questions.”
#ADOS #LineageMatters #Reparations @MississippiAdos

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-@chefcarney @MississippiAdos

This is a conversation that is long overdue. 🤔

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