I think a far closer analogy to the Fugitive Slave Act is not migrant deportation, which we have had mass deportations a couple of times already under FDR and Eisenhower for example.
No. A closer analogy to the Fugitive Slave Act will be when the Trump Administration enacts Project 2025 and it's attack on reproductive rights kicks in.
P2025 calls for the federal Dept of Health and Human Services to require states, on pain of losing federal dollars, to report to the DHHS the names and home addresses of women who get abortions in states where it is legal. The DHHS can then send those names back to anti-abortion states like Texas to prosecute the women when they return home.
This is a close analogy in which federal law would force people in "free states" to states to be compelled to support a "peculiar institution" - i.e. preventing women from getting necessary medical care.
I use history to explore what we shall become, knowing who we are, and by learning from where we have come.
An insightful nugget in today’s essay: “A second civil war isn’t likely to follow enforcement of Trump’s pledge to deport undocumented immigrants. The fault lines in America today run through states, between cities and rural regions, as much as between states, as they did in 1860.”
I think a far closer analogy to the Fugitive Slave Act is not migrant deportation, which we have had mass deportations a couple of times already under FDR and Eisenhower for example.
No. A closer analogy to the Fugitive Slave Act will be when the Trump Administration enacts Project 2025 and it's attack on reproductive rights kicks in.
P2025 calls for the federal Dept of Health and Human Services to require states, on pain of losing federal dollars, to report to the DHHS the names and home addresses of women who get abortions in states where it is legal. The DHHS can then send those names back to anti-abortion states like Texas to prosecute the women when they return home.
This is a close analogy in which federal law would force people in "free states" to states to be compelled to support a "peculiar institution" - i.e. preventing women from getting necessary medical care.
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I use history to explore what we shall become, knowing who we are, and by learning from where we have come.
An insightful nugget in today’s essay: “A second civil war isn’t likely to follow enforcement of Trump’s pledge to deport undocumented immigrants. The fault lines in America today run through states, between cities and rural regions, as much as between states, as they did in 1860.”
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