“For the first century of the country's existence, anyone could land here and walk right off the boat with no papers of any kind, just as Gumpertz did. Coming here "illegally" did not even exist as a concept.”https://twitter.com/inthepastlane/status/962628226022625280 …
Do you realize you wouldn’t even be in this country had a bunch of second-generation non-Protestant white Americans and a bunch of African Americans embarrassed in the country in the 1960s by showing how it interventionist practices abroad were at odds with the way it treated
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it treated non-whites at home? Asian immigration was cut off to this country for more than 80 years. If the Civil Rights movement never happened, the US would’ve never revisited its laws in the mid-1960s under JFK and LBJ. You wouldn’t be here.
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