From Chains to Checkpoints: MAGA’s Fugitive Slave Act Playbook

by Levi Perrin, Word in Black

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From the founding years of the United States, racialized immigration regimes have shaped how Black and Brown people move through — or are barred from — this country. More than 225 years after the first Fugitive Slave Act codified the forced removal of Black people from “free” soil, today’s immigration policies reflect a chilling continuity: targeting Haitians and other migrants of color for detention, deportation, or disappearance under the guise of legal order.

Fast forward to the present, where Haitian migrants face a similar peril — this time at the border, in detention centers, or in the waters off the coast. Despite fleeing political collapse, gang violence, and economic devastation, many Haitian asylum seekers are classified not as refugees but as “economic migrants,” a label that strips them of the legal right to stay. Thousands have been intercepted, detained, or deported in recent years under policies that echo racial exclusion rather than humanitarian response.

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