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		Torgo on Dec 9, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Century of Migration in the US open immigration periods were punctuated by closed periods that facilitated assimilation of those groups.

lymanstone on Dec 10, 2015 [–]

To the best of my knowledge, this is not true: the US was open from 1800 until Chinese exclusion in the 1870s and 1880s, and in the 1860s actually had laws to encourage even MORE immigration. See here: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/09/30/how-u-s-immi...

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