The Whites-Only Immigration Regime: Then & Now
The System Isn’t Broken – It was Built This Way
“This is a white man’s country,” said a senator in 1916. “They’re poisoning the blood of our country,” said President Donald Trump in 2023. Such statements are not just rhetoric—they reflect persistent ideas about race and belonging that lay at the root of the U.S. immigration regime.
Use the sliding feature below to compare and contrast how government authorities and others have both demanded and defended racism in the nation’s immigration regime, past and present.
Then & Now
Use the slider to swipe between the two maps and compare then and now. Download The Whites-Only Immigration Regime As Continued by the Trump Administrations with the button below.