Mapping deportations: UCLA team connects a century of immigration bias to the present
UCLA Mapping Project At a recent national briefing titled, “A History of Bias: Who Gets Deported in the United States?,” three UCLA researchers presented data, stretching back more than a century, which showed that the U.S.’ immigration policies in the 1890’s still determine which immigrants get to stay in the U.S. today. The project, called Mapping Deportations, is the result of five years of combing through immigration records going back to 1895. The UCLA researchers turned all of the data...
