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open immigration periods were punctuated by closed periods that facilitated assimilation of those groups.
by Torgo 11y ago
open immigration periods were punctuated by closed periods that facilitated assimilation of those groups.
- lymanstone 11y agoTo the best of my knowledge, this is not true: the US was open from 1800 until Chinese exclusion in the 1870s and 1880s, and in the 1860s actually had laws to encourage even MORE immigration. See here: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/09/30/how-u-s-immigration-laws-and-rules-have-changed-through-history/ http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/09/30/how-u-s-immi...