Trump Seeks Old Laws

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This time around, Trump and his allies have found some truly heinous old laws to advance their right-wing agenda

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Donald Trump and his allies have revisited US history and found some heinous old laws to advance their right-wing agenda.

The Comstock Act of 1873 , a product of the Victorian-era moral panic named after anti-vice activist Anthony Comstock , was designed to restrict the distribution of “obscenities” at the time, like pornography, contraceptives, and even some medical textbooks.

The other zombie laws in contention are the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 and Alien Enemies Act .

The end result of Trump 's immigration platform might look a lot like the Eisenhower administration’s 1954 “ Operation Wetback ,” in which law enforcement used military-style tactics to forcibly remove hundreds of thousands of Mexican immigrants from the US .

The Comstock Act and Alien and Sedition Acts were used during a time when American legislators were motivated by entrenched racism and sexism, writing immoral laws.

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