Is immigration as we have come to know it since the ground breaking 1965 law which opened America's door to millions of Asian, African and Latino immigrants about to become a thing of the past? It is unfortunate but true that much of the history of our Nation of Immigrants reflects hostility toward immigration. From the Alien and Sedition Acts in the 1790s to the powerful anti-immigrant American ("Know Nothing") Party of the 1840s to the Chinese Exclusion Act of the 1880s to the National Origin Quotas of the 1920s; from our failure to accept refugees from Hitler's Germany and our imprisonment of Japanese-Americans in concentration camps during World War II to Operation Wetback in 1950s, our record has been consistent. Bring in foreigners when we need cheap labor. Scapegoat and deport them during times of economic uncertainty. ...
