The Public Charge Rule for Immigrants Evokes the Antebellum Slave Codes

http://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/03/the-public-charge-rule-for-immigrants-evokes-the-antebellum-slave-codes/
Date Written:  2020-02-03
Publisher:  CounterPunch
Year Published:  2020
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX24046

Immigration historians have written extensively about how the archaic provision Trump is relying on had antecedents in state laws regulating Atlantic immigration in the 1800s. But little, if anything, has been said in the media about how Trump's rule is also rooted in a different set of state laws, specifically, state slave codes and other antebellum-era laws designed to preserve slavery and limit the movement of freed slaves.

Subject Headings

• Immigrants