This is an incredibly common belief (I read this in Mae Ngai's "Impossible Subjects"!), but it's not really right. Before 1924 (or 1917, really) immigration restriction and enforcement thereof was basically left to the states. An exception was Chinese exclusion in 1882...
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deportations were rare until the late 1920s
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Wow this article is almost as dehumanizing as the Frum one
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I'd say the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act was a pretty dramatic act of "closing the border."
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What would our world look like if we had no borders?
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And that is a bad thing because?
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Back in the day, people travelled to the US, started working, became citizens in 5 years. There were no visas. Today, it can take decades and tens of thousands of dollars in fees to get a green card. There are also racial quotas for Chinese, Vietnamese, Indians, etc.
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