What were the reasons Americans were opposed to immigration during the 1920s?

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Making America 1920 Over again? Nativism and US Immigration, Past and Present

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This paper surveys the history of nativism in the United States from the late nineteenth century to the present. It compares a recent surge in nativism with earlier periods, peculiarly the decades leading upwardly to the 1920s, when nativism directed against southern and eastern European, Asian, and Mexican migrants led to comprehensive legislative restrictions on immigration. It is based primarily on a review of historical literature, besides as contemporary immigration scholarship. Major findings include the following:

In that location are many similarities between the nativism of the 1870-1930 period and today, particularly the focus on the purported inability of specific immigrant groups to digest, the misconception that they may therefore be dangerous to the native-born population, and fear that immigration threatens American workers.

Mexican migrants in particular accept been consistent targets of nativism, immigration restrictions, and deportations.

There are too primal differences between these ii eras, about obviously in the targets of nativism, which today are undocumented and Muslim immigrants, and in President Trump's consistent, highly public, and widely disseminated appeals to nativist sentiment.

Historical studies of nativism suggest that nativism does not disappear completely, simply rather subsides. Furthermore, immigrants themselves can and practice adopt nativist attitudes, also equally their descendants.

Politicians, government officials, civic leaders, scholars and journalists must do more to reach sectors of social club that feel almost threatened past immigration.

While eradicating nativism may be impossible, a focus on avoiding or overturning nativist clearing legislation may prove more successful.

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