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This 3 page paper reflects on one of Bill One Hing's articles and the successful effect of immigration on U.S. diversity, despite immigration laws and other public policies that sought to destroy diversity. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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have been the basis of discrimination in America since before the revolution. Beginning in the late 1600s, and particularly by the time of the American Revolution, states began to
discriminate against anyone who was not white, Protestant and spoke English as their native language. Some of this tradition continues to haunt some of the minds of Americans today. It
is based on fears that people of a make-up other than the type who founded the nation would overrun it and assume control, thus changing the very foundation of the
nation. But immigration could not stop the influx of immigrants onto these golden shores. The nation was created out of many races and ethnicities.
There were so many ways to enter the country by the late 1700s that the Immigration and Naturalization, under the power of a new nation, began to enact immigration
laws to prevent other nations from dumping their tired, poor, and criminal elements on this empty land. Several laws were passed within months of each other beginning in 1798 with
the Alien and Sedition Act, the Naturalization Act, and the Alien Friends Act. These laws were all meant to protect the nation against "dangerous" elements from around the world, such
as French and Irish sympathizers who disagreed with the Adams democracy and put their thoughts into words. The Sedition Act was repealed with Jeffersons election because it conflicted with the
right o free speech, and while Congress attempted to put up a continual fence against the immigration of all races of people, we are lucky the founding fathers and their
successors failed. Everyone they considered threats, like Quakers and Catholics, helped build the infant nation and bring it to greatness. It wasnt easy;
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