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  1. Nov 2020
    1. typically were labeled “economic migrants,” not political refugees.

      Labels matter!! Highlights how labels play into politics and emotions.

    2. Those refugees found President Ronald Reagan’s White House no more eager to open its arms than the Trump administration is now to embrace Syrians seeking shelter from carnage back home

      New normalization of turning our back against refugees. This highlights a blindness of the U.S.'s military involvement in the same countries of whom they later reject refugees from.

    3. sanctuary movement of the 1980s, which put church and state in conflict with each other over the fate of Central Americans fleeing civil wars and pleading for asylum in the United States.

      Insight into the dynamic between the church and state --> Clash between morality and politics

    4. threatening to withhold federal money from localities that refuse to cooperate with immigration officials.

      Looming threat --> Coerces localities to respond in a specific way due to national pressure. Further shows that the President can impact the enforcement/implementation of asylum.

    5. In biblical times, shelter was offered even to those who might have qualified as “bad hombres” in the eyes of President Trump.

      Originally, sanctuary was non-discriminatory. Stark contrast from its selectivity today.