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Originally Posted by Guest
In the 1920's after several decades of open arms to immigration, a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment fueled by racism, nativism, religious bigotry, and ethnic purity concerns swept the county led by the GOP. They depicted those entering mostly via NYC in view of the Statue of Liberty (Give us your poor..) as undesirables. Those undesirables certainly included my grandparents. Too much cheap labor, too many Catholics and Jews, too many not speaking English, too many breeding like vermin once they got here, and too many criminals in their ranks. Shut the doors or America will be ruined.
Of course those immigrants and their children were central to the success of America in science, art, music, business etc. Immigrants have always been full of initiative and when given opportunity been a huge net positive for the US.
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Your education or lack of it is troubling. This has NOTHING to do with "immigrants" or "racism." We are talking about criminals, ILLEGALS, breakers of the law. No one has suggested deporting immigrants, so your whole premise is skewed. What a 'tard!!