> For the average European Depends how old you are, I guess: - The Palmer Raids (1919-20) - WW2 internment and deportation (1942-45) - McCarthy era (all of th

> For the average European Depends how old you are, I guess: - The Palmer Raids (1919-20) - WW2 internment and deportation (1942-45) - McCarthy era (all of the 50s) - Present day Each one seems to have deported random people. Many of whom did nothing wrong. And honorable mention: - Fallout from the Iranian hostage crisis (1979-81) That last one didn't involve Europeans, per se, but it did deport a lot of innocent people. And for a bonus, here's the ~30yr pattern of anti-immigration: - Immigration Act of 1924 - Operation Wetback of 1954 - Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 - Present day These things have _always_ happened here. And some of them even follow a pattern. Edit: Sorry for the formatting.