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Let’s get the history of American immigration policy straight. #immigrationhistory #legalhistory 1/
First of all, contrary to the popular and scholarly myth that American borders were open (meaning anybody could enter the US) until the introduction of federal Chinese exclusion law in the 1880s, American borders were NEVER legally open even before that. 2/
Before the federal government started regulating immigration during the 1880s, the administration of immigration largely fell upon local and state governments. 3/
