| Last week during the GOP convention in Milwaukee we heard a lot of bad things about immigrants. This is actually a very old story in American politics. A bill passed by the very first Congress of the United States, the Naturalization Act of 1790, limited naturalization to “free white person(s) … of good character,” explicitly excluding Native Americans, indentured servants, enslaved people, free Africans, and Asians from citizenship.
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