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US Editorials called the Polish immigrant Grandparents of Laura Ingraham ‘Undesirables’
Juan Cole 08/10/2018
See: https://www.juancole.com/2018/08/editorials-grandparents-undesirables.html
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Excellent article by Prof. Cole on some of the immigration cycles the US has experienced and the racist backlash against most of them.
Republicans apparently think they can put the time machine in reverse........
Juan Cole 08/10/2018
See: https://www.juancole.com/2018/08/editorials-grandparents-undesirables.html
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Laura Ingraham’s maternal grandparents were immigrants from Poland, Michael Kozak and Carolina/Caroline Mazur. Her Polish-American mother worked as a waitress into her early 70s.
The white Protestant Kansas City Star saw Polish immigrants as uneducated, lacking in skills, lazy and in general “undesirable,” and called for a halt to immigration from Poland as early as 1895:
“Time to Call a Halt.” Kansas City Star (Kansas City, Missouri) • January 26, 1895.
The white Protestant Kansas City Star saw Polish immigrants as uneducated, lacking in skills, lazy and in general “undesirable,” and called for a halt to immigration from Poland as early as 1895:
“Time to Call a Halt.” Kansas City Star (Kansas City, Missouri) • January 26, 1895.
Excellent article by Prof. Cole on some of the immigration cycles the US has experienced and the racist backlash against most of them.
Republicans apparently think they can put the time machine in reverse........
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