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John B. Washington

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The Roots of Bukele’s Gulag

Understanding why Trump is using El Salvador to test the limits of illegal deportation requires returning to the US’s long history of outsourcing violence.

by John B. Washington via New York Review of Books
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on June 1, 2025
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The U.S. Role in the El Mozote Massacre Echoes in Today’s Immigration

An ongoing trial is bringing atrocities to light.

by John B. Washington, Nelson Rauda via Made By History on May 12, 2021
The Long, Winding, and Painful Story of Asylum

An ancient concept, asylum has become just another political tool in the hands of our government.

by John B. Washington via The Nation
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on April 20, 2020

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A man in fatigues holding a rifle while in a aerial lift platform truck to peek over the border wall.

The Death of Asylum

How centuries of efforts to deny refuge to persecuted people paved way for authoritarianism.

by Tanvi Misra via Jewish Currents on April 16, 2026

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