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Written by Thanasis Kinias on 2024-11-26 at 14:45

Greg Rosalsky at NPR: “The price America paid for its first big immigration crackdown” https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2024/11/26/g-s1-35805/chinese-expulsion-act-railroads-immigration-crackdown

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Written by Thanasis Kinias on 2024-11-26 at 14:46

I have to say, though, that I really dislike using the term ‘crackdown’ to describe xenophobic legislation and mob violence.

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Written by Lyle Solla-Yates on 2024-11-26 at 14:52

@tkinias I don't recall hearing of this massacre before. Ugly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Chinese_massacre_of_1871

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Written by Thanasis Kinias on 2024-11-26 at 15:20

@Lyle

Grim stuff indeed.

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