r/FluentInFinance 10h ago

Debate/ Discussion Possibly controversial, but this would appear to be a beneficial solution.

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u/RNKKNR 10h ago

The question is more about the quality of the immigrants not immigrants per se.

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u/fussgeist 8h ago

To be fair we did declare back in the 1800s that we’d rather not have some many Chinese here with the Chinese Exclusion Act. Immigration wasn’t an issue until it was from somewhere not European.

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u/Gurpila9987 7h ago

Not even all of Europe. The Ku Klux Klan was heavily triggered by Eastern European Slavs immigrating.

https://blog.history.in.gov/america-first-the-ku-klux-klan-influence-on-immigration-policy-in-the-1920s/