>>Ironic when you think that some of the greatest prejudices in US immigration policy would have tried to exclude some of our most productive communities ( Chinese, Jews, Italians, Irish, Poles etc etc )
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>You can take "would have" out of that sentence. US immigration policy absolutely tried to exclude Chinese, Jews and Poles. Not sure about Italians and Irish.
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>Tamar
Good editor's eye. I mean "if continued would have excluded" ( of course actual immigration exclusion and or quotas didn't begin until 1917, except for the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. and limits on Japanese at the beginning of the 20th century. There was screening beginning about 1875 and the Anarchist Exclusion Act of 1903 was often enforced in an Anti-Semitic fashion )
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