Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why?

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• Successful_Try543@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There have been resentments against different groups of immigrants even before, e.g. Italians, Irish, or Chinese.

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• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There’s a great fictional movie called Gangs of New York that covers the real life anti immigration riots that happened in New York City during the civil war.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Daniel Day Lewis is so good in it

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