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Your immigration rants should remind of us of previous immigrant hate filled times. Here is one example, I could post 50 others: Fear of Chinese immigrants taking over jobs was coupled by a growing concern over the criminal element. While there was certainly a criminal factor in place--as seen in the "tongs"--fear of such an element was grossly exaggerated.   A 1909 study on Chinese Immigration notes: "The Chinese became the scape-goats for the evils of the time; they were stoned, robbed, maltreated in the streets with impunity by the idler and the hoodlum, who suffered no restraint."   This scape-goating is exemplified in legislative action of the time. In 1854, the Committee on Vice and Immorality linked anti-Chinese sentiment with a decrease in gambling and increases in Temperance, Sunday-School attendance and refined society. It seems that taking out frustrations on immigrants who didn't have any legal right to protest was good for...
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