Comment by fcarraldo
1 day ago
100 years?
In the 1920s and 1930s the US had:
- Forced labor
- Peonage
- Debt servitude
- Jim crow laws
The 19th amendment was ratified in 1920, so that barely missed the cutoff.
The US has not been some beacon of moral righteousness for the majority of its existence.
USA accepted more immigrants between 1900 and 1980 than every other western country combined.