The girlies are back for part two of the immigration series to unpack our modern-day McCarthyism. Starting with a recap of current events (aka The Horrible Things Update), they pick up where they left off in history, discussing Japanese internment, the second Red Scare, post-9/11 surveillance, and how fear of the 'other' has always justified oppression. Digressions include Khloe Kardashian’s venture into protein dust and the comforting fact that, as of today, sunlight is still legal to experience.

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This episode was produced by Julia Hava and Eliza McLamb and edited by Allison Hagan. Research assistance from Kylie Finnigan.

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At $5 Million Each, 1000 ‘Gold Card’ Visas Have Been Sold. Could This Pay Off The US Debt?

Ask a Historian: How Many Japanese Americans Were Incarcerated During WWII?

Columbia University agrees to policy changes after Trump administration funding threats

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Counterintelligence and Access to Transactional Records: A Practical History of USA PATRIOT Act Section 215

Eighty Years After the U.S. Incarcerated 120,000 Japanese Americans, Trauma and Scars Still Remain 

Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations

Edward Snowden Speaks Out: 'I Haven't And I Won't' Cooperate With Russia

Fact check: Is Tren de Aragua invading the US, as Trump says?

Florida lawmakers push legislation to weaken child labor laws 

Forced to live in horse stalls. How one of America’s worst injustices played out at Santa Anita

Harvard Renames Diversity Office As Trump Demands Dismantling of DEI

Harvard, Under Pressure, Revamps D.E.I. Office

Harvard Will Not Fund Affinity Group Graduation Celebrations Following Ed Department Warning 

Higher education, federal government ‘intimately connected’

History of the Certificate of Citizenship, 1790–1956

Hollywood Ten

How U.S. immigration laws and rules have changed through history

HUAC  

ICE Arrests Nearly 800 in Florida in Operation With Local Officers

ICE deported 3 children who are U.S. citizens, their families’ lawyers say  

Immigration and Naturalization in the Western Tradition

Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding the Invasion of The United States by Tren De Aragua

Japanese Internment Camps

Judge Blocks Deportations of Venezuelans Under Wartime Law

Law from the 1950s may play role in Columbia University student deportation case  

Maryland judge orders return of second man deported to El Salvador in violation of court order 

McCarran Internal Security Act of 1950 (1950)

McCarthyism / The "Red Scare" 

McCarthyism and the Red Scare

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National Security Entry-Exit Registration System

Of Spies and G-Men: How the U.S. Government Turned Japanese Americans into Enemies of the State

PATRIOT Act   

Redress and Reparations for Japanese American Incarceration

The Alien Enemies Act, Explained

The Alien Enemies Act Is a Weak Argument for Deportation

The Alien Enemies Act Paved the Way for Japanese American Incarceration. Let’s Keep It in the Past.

The Alien Enemies Act: The One Alien and Sedition Act Still on the Books

The case of Edward Snowden

This Is What Detention Under the Alien Enemies Act Looked Like in World War II

Truman’s Loyalty Program

Trump is promising deportations under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. What is it?

Trump May Seek Judicial Oversight of Columbia, Potentially for Years 

Trump officials issue quotas to ICE officers to ramp up arrests

U.S. Immigration Timeline

Venezuela minister says no Tren de Aragua members among US deportees

When John Adams Signed a Law to Authorize Deportations and Jail Critics

World War II Japanese Americans Incarceration: Justice Denied