Tensions in America over immigration are, once again, reaching a fever pitch. Nativism has been a problem since the founding of our country; even Franklin and Jefferson fought over the citizenship of German immigrants in the late 1700s. There have been violent anti-Catholic movements directed at the Irish and Germans, and the Asian Exclusion Act during …
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