2/Immigration restriction was a product of racist policies of the late 1800s, early 1900s, when eugenics and Social Darwinism were in vogue. Surely you're familiar with those, @DineshDSouza, since they're fraudulent racist ideas cloaked in pseudo-intellectualism...just like you!
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3/ But in the period under consideration here, immigration occurred either willingly (migrants from mostly Europe, but Asia beginning w the 1848 gold rush) or unwillingly (the slave trade). There were no restrictions like you so desperately want today.
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4/ to speak of "legal" immigrants in 1860 would have gotten you a bunch of funny looks. There were many Americans who *did* want to restrict immigration in the 1840s-1850s, the so-called "Know Nothings." But they never achieved that goal, as it was a minority position.
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5/ By 1860 they were subsumed by the Republicans, and as the platform quoted by
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@DineshDSouza, you are not only wrong, but you are getting tedious about being wrong. I know you like to poke historians to show your followers you're rivals with the "academic elite." But it ain't a rivalry if one side never wins. You're the Washington Generals of TwitterShow this thread
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FFS, He's trying again!?


New term, Dineshed= proved wrong by published, recognized well regarded American Historians. See @KevinMKruse,@HC_Richardson , @TheTattoedProf for examples from this week.
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Ooooh, yes! Present tense of the verb is to Dinesh.
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Perhaps his definition of illegal immigrant is someone born outside of the country who the commits a felony in the United States? Like <checks notes> Dinesh D'Souza.
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