05-16-2016, 05:57 PM
(05-16-2016, 05:32 PM)Benton Wrote: I disagree (I know, you're shocked). We had little to no immigration controls until after the Civil War. Anti-Catholic efforts were here well before then. And even when we did start having immigration controls in the 1900s (ish), they were mostly southern state laws aimed at "brown" people.
As far as the rest, assimilation doesn't happen overnight. Unless you're the Borg. It takes decades. Longer if there's a considerable effort to keep that from happening. Which, in this case, there is. For Catholics, in some parts of the country, it was still an issue in JFK vs Nixon, well over a century when most of them first started coming here.
So, if you want to up that chance from 0 to a solid 3 or 5% of them assimilating, go hug a Muslim. Instead of posting stories about someone allegedly going to the bathroom in Europe and blaming it on a Muslim, tell an immigrant "hey, nice choice in landing spots." Instead of posting erroneous stories from propganda sites about mass raping sprees, invite a local Muslim family out for coffee.
Or, keeping going with hating theCatholicsJewsBlacksMuslims.
I am shocked you disagree lol.
http://www.flowofhistory.org/themes/movement_settlement/uspolicytimeline.php
Immigration policy timeline seems we slowed down immigration during that time. The potato famine caused the flood of Irish. Which we responded by clamping down on immigration.
On the rest ....: you can make comments all you like about where a story is posted. But that doesn't mean it was made up. The people of Europe are gripping due to onslaught of refugees who aren't even refugees they are just people who don't want to follow the protocol for legal immigration.
Are you against the rule of law? Or just immigration laws in particular.... If you think the world should be borderless then just say it .... But until the laws change we follow the laws.
