Donald Trump isn’t the first politician to focus on the ‘right’ kind of immigrant How racism shaped centuries of U.S. immigration policy

• Published in: Washington Post – Blogs
• Main Author: Cossen, William S
• Format: Newspaper Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington WP Company LLC d/b/a The Washington Post 12.01.2018
• Subjects: 19th century; Citizenship; Immigration policy; Noncitizens; Political campaigns; Race; Rhetoric; Trump, Donald J

A decade later, that belief served as the foundation for Chief Justice Roger B. Taney's opinion in the 1857 Supreme Court case of Dred Scott v. Sandford , which denied African Americans the rights of citizenship. The Irish World and American Industrial Liberator, a New York newspaper, argued in 1890, "The American people ask only that their refuse population shall not be dumped as garbage upon our shore by foreign nations nor made a species of merchandise to be trafficked in by the dealers in 'cheap and submissive' labor and utilized for the purpose of reducing the standard of American wages down to the European level." [...]apparently, does Trump's preferred system. [...]for most of American history, immigration policy was guided by fears that the "wrong" sorts of immigrants could tear the country apart, while making it harder for average Americans to make a living.