Thanks for bringing this history to the forefront. I taught immigration history, and students, especially Irish and Germans were flabbergasted to know that their great-grandparents had been so badly treated in the 19th century, and that they were described in the very terms that contemporary immigrants were, or people of Italian ancestry were surprised that the first major attempts to limit immigration for European immigration (which is why there is now a difference between documented and undocumented migrants) were because they were believed to be "bad" immigrants, and these laws effectively made it very difficult for Italians and Eastern Europeans to come to America legally from the 1920s on.
Yes, as somebody who grew up Catholic (and considered that to be as American as apple pie) I thought it was wild when I was in college and first started to learn about some of the anti-Catholic movements and conspiracy theories!
Sure, although there was no such thing as "illegal" immigration in the 1840s because there wasn't any real federal control over who entered the country at that point.
If you're trying to imply that Trump is only against illegal immigration, there's plenty of evidence that he and the people around him, like Stephen Miller, are targeting legal immigrants in addition to people who are in the US illegally.
Thanks for bringing this history to the forefront. I taught immigration history, and students, especially Irish and Germans were flabbergasted to know that their great-grandparents had been so badly treated in the 19th century, and that they were described in the very terms that contemporary immigrants were, or people of Italian ancestry were surprised that the first major attempts to limit immigration for European immigration (which is why there is now a difference between documented and undocumented migrants) were because they were believed to be "bad" immigrants, and these laws effectively made it very difficult for Italians and Eastern Europeans to come to America legally from the 1920s on.
Yes, as somebody who grew up Catholic (and considered that to be as American as apple pie) I thought it was wild when I was in college and first started to learn about some of the anti-Catholic movements and conspiracy theories!
Anti immigration or anti illegal immigration? There's a difference.
Sure, although there was no such thing as "illegal" immigration in the 1840s because there wasn't any real federal control over who entered the country at that point.
If you're trying to imply that Trump is only against illegal immigration, there's plenty of evidence that he and the people around him, like Stephen Miller, are targeting legal immigrants in addition to people who are in the US illegally.