Going a couple of decades earlier than the promised 1880s because of an 1856 volume informatively titled Immigration: Its Evils and Consequences by Samuel Busey, M.D. The title leaves little to the imagination and the contents confirm Busey's attitude.
Busey writes that unless evil German, Irish, and British immigrants are stopped, we shall see the end of American institutions and freedoms for while the Germans organize German associations, the Irish elect their own, and the Brits kowtow to the Queen ("Once an Englishman, always an Englishman").
Busey writes that unless evil German, Irish, and British immigrants are stopped, we shall see the end of American institutions and freedoms for while the Germans organize German associations, the Irish elect their own, and the Brits kowtow to the Queen ("Once an Englishman, always an Englishman").
Busey outlines familiar suspects as complicit in destroying the very fabric of America woven so carefully by "our forefathers" (methinks 1856 is a bit early to be talking about "forefathers."):
- they send their money home instead of investing their earnings in America
- they take jobs away from Americans, work for less and "depreciate the value of American labor."
- they have too many children thus engendering "absorption, either partial or complete, of the American character."
- they are criminals and paupers
- they bring "disease, disorder, and immorality"
On a related note, one of my favorite segments of The Daily Show was the one where Stewart took on the leprosy scare of 2007 shored up by media outlets and politicians:
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