12/09/2025
We can’t talk about the abuse of power by the current administration without acknowledging and holding accountable the system built in years past that allows it. I find Professor Kocher’s analysis on the history of a racist immigration system incredibly helpful.
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“Nearly every conversation I have with fellow immigration scholars these days arrives at a similar crux: although the current Trump administration’s immigration enforcement agenda is the most aggressive we’ve seen in modern history, the hyper-focus on the current moment detracts from the longer history of how we got here. Trump is wielding tools created for him by Democrats and Republicans over many decades, despite a chorus of concern from scholars and advocates. We hand Trump a chainsaw, then act shocked when trees start to fall.” Professor Austin Kocher
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No podemos hablar del abuso de poder por parte de la actual administración sin reconocer y responsabilizar al sistema creado en años anteriores que lo permite. El análisis del profesor Kocher sobre la historia de un sistema de inmigración ra***ta me parece increíblemente útil.
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Profesor Austin Kocher
Over two centuries of deportation data and restrictive laws show that immigration enforcement is not a neutral process but a racial boundary-making system built across decades of policy decisions.
