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We didn’t cross the border,

the border crossed us

Nothing can be more clear and

prescient than the immigrant

rights movement slogan ‘we

didn’t cross the border, the border

crossed us’. The annexation of

half of Mexico by the USA and

the subsequent demonisation

and disenfranchisement of a pop-

ulation that has been crossing

and recrossing these imaginary

lines for centuries exemplifies

the sardonic sadism of the nine-

teenth century manifest destiny

that made ‘America’ ‘great’.

– Hank Willis Thomas

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