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“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0

Via the Washington Monthly, Paul Finkelman looks at Donald Trump’s proposed immigration “policy” changes and hears a rhyme from the past. Here’s a tiny bit (emphasis added); follow the link for the rest.

Beginning with the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the U.S. established a pattern of limiting immigration and naturalization based on race, ethnicity, and geographic origin. In 1924, Congress severely limited total immigration, preventing it entirely from some countries, such as Japan and China, and dramatically curbing it from southern, eastern, and central Europe. For more than a century, the U.S. has been a haven for those fleeing persecution, war, famine, and disaster. The Statue of Liberty still had on her pedestal the words “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” However, the Immigration Act of 1924 closed the doors to America for most of those huddled masses.

And the Trump maladministration moves to close that door once more.

America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the myth of racial superiority fabricated to rationalize it continue to take their toll.

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*Mark Twain.

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November 19, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: "That Conversation about Race", Culture Warriors, Politics of Hate, The Secesh |

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