Debates on immigration are popular here in the members' section of SW. Have you ever heard this?
Yeah, well I may be the great-great-grandchild of immigrants, but my great-great-grandparents came here legally. They weren't criminals like the &*!&^% Mexicans!
, following . Prior to that, if you weren't Chinese, all you had to do to emigrate to the United States was show up on a boat.
This de facto arrangement continued until was passed in 1921.
I've also read comments like these here on SW:
Well, at least my great great grandparents integrated, unlike the &*!&^% Mexicans!
Did they really? Many didn't think so at the time. You might find some of the following images interesting.
Here are some political cartoons from the Know Nothings. They were a party active in Boston during the 1850s. Their platform was pretty simple: down with the Irish immigrants and other Papists (aka Catholics).
The text is hard to read, but the barge, covered with all sorts of nasty, simian-looking immigrants says "Uncle Sam's Lodging House".
Here's another one from the 1880s:
The more things change...








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