Racist Anti-Immigrant Hysteria Is Aimed At Blinding Voters To Reality

Replace the bombing in New York with the death of Laken Riley … “cesspools of the Old World” with “sh**hole countries” … “polluted the clear spring” with “poisoning the blood” and Ellis Island with the southwest border, and a 1920 editorial could be a 2024 presidential campaign speech.In 1920, the targets of anti-immigration hatred were European, not Central and South American, but were no less targets of the racial and religious bigotry of the era. The newcomers from Italy, Greece and Eastern Europe were considered inferior – dirtier, less intelligent, more criminally inclined – than Americans of northern European and Anglo-Saxon descent. The current GOP presidential nominee’s own father, the son of a German immigrant, was arrested at an anti-Catholic Ku Klux Klan march in 1927.