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Episode 185: Nativism in Media (Part II) - The Artificial Cold War Distinction Between 'Migrants' and 'Refugees'

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The Racist Ideological Moral Tier System in the US

The first immigration exclusion laws, which happened so 1875, the Page Act specifically said that Chinese laborers who were at the time coming to California because of the gold rush. There's this tremendous anti-Chinese nativism led often by first generation and second generation Irish-American immigrants. This is like a racialized kind of race to the bottom. Those people are going to drag our wages even lower. So instead of welcoming them ... we're going to say we're not going to have them. We don't want them.

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