[Throughline] A History of U.S. Travel and Immigration Bans

To understand why a president in 2025 and 2026 could bar the nationals of dozens of countries with the stroke of a pen, you have to go back to a Supreme Court that, in the 1880s and 1890s, decided that immigration was a…

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