Nativism is certainly not new. Benjamin Franklin didn't like the Germans in colonial Pennsylvania. The Alien and Sedition Acts, passed in 1798, were an attempt to deny immigrants from France and Ireland full political rights, and they became a major political issue in the 1800 election. The Irish, Catholics, and Chinese have all suffered under the hands of Americans. When times are bad economically, the first thing we do is point fingers at the latest group of newcomers and blame them for our problems.
This is the one of the current finger-pointers:
all I can say is - what an idiot.
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