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Italian and Austrian war prisoners were planning to come to America and in preparation, America was trying to put bills in place to prevent immigration.

Comprised of eight drawings and eight stanzas of poem -- "War on the Heathen Chinee" depicting Chinese being ousted from manufacturing labor.
Relevant poem stanza: "And the war on the Heathen Chinee / Is as hot now, as hot well can be; / They say…

Chart from times of India analyzing the origins of foreign medical workers in the USA.

Uncle Sam at head of table; to his right is a Chinese man eating a rat.

Caption: Seventy Millions of People Are Starving in the Northern Provinces of China. All Who Can Do So are Making Preparations to Come to the United States. Look Out for the Grasshoppers, Uncle Sam!
Chinese people are depicted as locusts.

English: U.S. inspectors examining eyes of immigrants, Ellis Island, New York Harbor

Both documents are excerpts from a larger work, Mary M. Kritz's U.S. IMMIGRATION AND REGUGEE POLICY, 1983. The first, "Current Status of U.S. Immigration and Refugee Policy" by Charles B. Keely, documents why immigration policy is so slow to change.…

Oscar Wilde said “Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.“
Even under the most ideal circumstances, parenting is at best a flawed act of trying to balance teaching our kids what we…

This image is a political cartoon titled "The Coming Man," published in The Wasp magazine on May 20, 1881. It reflects the anti-Chinese sentiment prevalent in the U.S. during the late 19th century, particularly around the time of the Chinese…