Steve’s Barking; The anti immigration USofA

 The United States that I was taught was a nation of immigrants. That seems to be true but and this is a big but the immigrant wasn’t always welcome.. 

 In the beginning I am told that there was a land mass from Asia to what is now called the Americas and those in that part of Asia immigrated to the Americas.unfortunately many of the immigrants formed tribes and warred and enslaved one another.

 Ah but later on Europeans came to what was later called America. Now one of the places that Europeans settled in was mostly English. Now the mostly English didn’t got a little upset with British rule, so they had a little revolution which the settlers ( the people who came from Europe) which the settlers eventually won.

 Now even before the revolution the land that was eventually called the United States welcomed immigrants, some of which from Europe were only too happy to come to what was eventually called the United States and there were some that were from Africa who didn’t really want to come to this land but were forced to.

 Now it appears to this blogger before the U.S. became a country immigrants were welcome with opened arms. Ah but not to long after the New Nation of the United States was established there was anarchy in France and those in power in the United States wanted to keep their old allies out forming the first wave of anti immigrant sentiment in the United States.

 Now I’ve been told that in the 30s, 1830s that is there was a deep fear of German Catholics, that a whole political party was formed called the no nothing party to keep these persons beholding to the pope in Rome out. Of cause they didn’t succeed.

  Now I’ve also been led to believe there was a great deal of resentment toward Italian immigrants, including the mass lynching of Italians in New Orleans inn1891 ( the biggest case of mass lynching in the United States 

 Oh I can’t forget the great resentment of some blue blooded Americans ( English Decent ) against the Irish immigrants. 

 Oh I’m almost forgetting how a group of so called intellectuals tried to keep Slavic people by claiming that they were intellectually inferior and therefore should not be allowed into the United States.

 And then we had the red scare were anyone suspected of being a communist, socialist or anarchist not born in the U.S. was kicked out to their country of origin.

 Even Jews who were being so persecuted in Germany in the 1930s were kept out of the United Staes by quotas.

—-What this blogger is trying hard to say that even the United States which proudly proclaims is a nation of immigrants, through out its history there has been an anti- immigrant sentiment. One shouldn’t be bewildered by the present anti- immigration reaction now.