Who Is and Isn’t “Legal”
by Cliff Tasner
3 min read
There has been a strong nativist streak in the United States for much of our history. In the mid-1800s, the Know-Nothing Party was created to stoke fears of the Irish Catholics who had fled famine to come here. And a couple of decades later, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed to protect America from the growing “yellow peril.”