Our immigration issues are hardly a new phenomenon…
These are from the 1800s, with the Irish and Italians but especially the Chinese as popular targets (leading to the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, which wasn’t repealed until 1943).
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@Zaphod42 That’s always puzzled me—to my eyes the Irish don’t look any different from the English (forgive me if that somehow offends anyone). And the English indisputably identify as "white". When I was a kid, Mexicans, East Indians and Arab people were all classified as "Caucasian".
And some of them had skin the same color as mine, some even darker. 🤔
@bijouxbroussard I don’t get any of it. My ancestry is English, Irish, Scottish, German, French and Norwegian…there is no part of my heritage that hasn’t done horrible things to some other part of it, and just about all of them have been unwelcome in America at some point or another 🤷♂
