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🗓️ 20 November 2025
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Three of the 18th Century laws making up the Alien and Sedition Acts have expired, but the Alien Enemies Act is getting quite a workout today. Qian Julie Wang is managing partner of Gottlieb & Wang LLP, a firm dedicated to advocating for education and civil rights. She joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII was allowed, why students can be deported for supporting Palestine, and how this antiquated law is being used in public policy today. Her introduction appears in the new edition of “The Alien and Sedition Acts.”
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| 0:58.7 | When we've only known life with these protections of our liberties, they can seem as immutable as the law of gravity. |
| 1:05.1 | But without vigilance, human-made laws can quickly withdraw or corrupt our treasured American rights. |
| 1:11.8 | Case in point, the Alien and Sedition Act. |
| 1:14.6 | From KERA in Dallas, this is think. |
| 1:17.4 | I'm Chris Boyd. |
| 1:18.8 | The ink was not a decade dry on the Bill of Rights before these four laws were put in place |
| 1:23.6 | in 1798 in response to anxieties around war and how immigrants might change the American |
| 1:28.9 | way of life. Many scholars view the alien and sedition acts as a historic embarrassment in direct |
| 1:35.0 | contradiction with our stated values. But as my guest reminds us, in an introductory chapter, |
| 1:40.6 | she wrote to a republication of the acts in book form. The one that has done the most |
| 1:45.5 | harm over the past two and a quarter centuries is not only still on the books, it is still being |
| 1:50.3 | used as a basis for public policy. Jen Julie Wong is managing partner of Gottlieb and Wong LLP. |
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