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Kelly Lytle Hernandez in KNPR: “Nevada Judge Strikes Down Law Detaining Immigrants Over Its Racist Roots”


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Historians like Kelly Lytle Hernandez have found that racism played a significant role in the law’s creation. “(The law was created) in 1929 by a eugenicist and white supremacist with the clear intention of targeting Mexican immigrants in particular, Latinx immigrants in general,” said Hernandez, a UCLA history professor and author who gave testimony in…

Historians like Kelly Lytle Hernandez have found that racism played a significant role in the law’s creation. “(The law was created) in 1929 by a eugenicist and white supremacist with the clear intention of targeting Mexican immigrants in particular, Latinx immigrants in general,” said Hernandez, a UCLA history professor and author who gave testimony in the Nevada case.