The Root of America's Racist Immigration Policy
On Tuesday May 16,2006 President George W. Bush started his State of the Union speech with, "We must begin by recognizing the problem with our immigration system". Although the ideologies and issues that America faces today with immigration may seem more complex, there not. The truth is America was founded by immigrants and has flourished with many new types of immigrants to this very day. As romantic as that sounds, immigrants have been met with racist policies that have been institutionalized. Unfortunately, The United States has always treated immigration as a problem. This ideology began during the turn of the century when America absorbed 13 million immigrants, who were met with a hostile fear and prejudice by the natives. John Higham, a leading immigration scholar', offers reasons why he believes America's ideas about race changed during the late nineteenth century to support America's more restrictive (racist)......
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