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Master's Recital, Victor Romero, Valerie Ore May 2015

Master's Recital, Victor Romero, Valerie Ore

Victor C. Romero

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Honors Convocation, Jae Ahn-Benton, Nathan Van Arsdale, Victor Romero, David Casey, Christina Mchugh, Kyle Overlay, Kyle Bissantz, David Chavez, Rebecca Gray, Phil Parsons, Isaiah C. Pickney May 2015

Honors Convocation, Jae Ahn-Benton, Nathan Van Arsdale, Victor Romero, David Casey, Christina Mchugh, Kyle Overlay, Kyle Bissantz, David Chavez, Rebecca Gray, Phil Parsons, Isaiah C. Pickney

Victor C. Romero

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Our Illegal Founders, Victor C. Romero May 2015

Our Illegal Founders, Victor C. Romero

Victor C. Romero

This Essay briefly mines America’s history to argue that the law setting forth where our national borders are and how strictly we patrol them has always been subject to the vagaries of politics, economics, and perception. Illegal (im)migration has long been part of our migration history, engaged in not just by Latin American border crossers, but also by prominent colonists, giving the lie to the claim that upholding border laws should always be sacrosanct. In many school districts today, the usual summary of American history from our childhood civics classes no longer bypasses the uncomfortable truths of conquest and westward …