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Anti-Immigration Fervor Is Different This Time
« on: December 18, 2017, 04:12:28 pm »


    Anti-Immigration Fervor Is Different This Time

    Americans now are much more welcoming than they were in the last outbreak of xenophobia.

    December 18, 2017, 2:00 AM PST



    The wave of anti-immigration sentiment that boosted the presidential campaign of Donald Trump has eerie historical parallels. In 1955, historian John Higham wrote a book entitled, “Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925.” The restrictionist movements, ideas and legislative efforts chronicled in Higham’s history bear a distinct resemblance to those that have emerged in the present day. But there are good reasons to think that this time is different because economic and cultural changes make it unlikely the U.S. will go down the same isolationist path that it trod in the early 20th century.

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