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Kevin Kenny
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Historian of US immigration, 19th-century US, global migration, diaspora
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The origins federal power over immigration as a matter of national security lie in Chinese exclusion. SCOTUS cited the Chinese Exclusion Case (1889) in upholding the so-called Muslim Travel Ban in Trump v. Hawaii (2018), ignoring argments on religious discrimination. 🧵8/8

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Kevin Kenny
@kevinkenny.bsky.social
Historian of US immigration, 19th-century US, global migration, diaspora
702 followers615 following187 posts