New rule: to comment negatively about immigrants, you have to first disclose why your own family members immigrated to the US seeking a better life, and why people facing much worse shouldn’t have the same opportunity.
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She knows her talking points. The papers were full of complaints that Italy wasn't sending their best, look at these criminals addicted to the vendetta. So laws passed limiting Italian immigration. They mostly got to achieve whiteness post-WWII because they were Christian of a sort and not Black.
And around the 1920’s white plantation owners got permission from both US and Italy to “import” impoverished southern Italians to replace blacks who had migrated to the north for factory jobs. They didn’t all get to this country on their own.
