A brief history of "shithole countries": The Germans, or “Palatine boors,” who settled in Ben Franklin’s Pennsylvania in the 18th century (1) 
The Irish in the 1830s-40s who saw their churches burned & attacked by anti-Catholic mobs (2) 
The Chinese in the 1860s who were clearly plotting an invasion & sparking fears of the “Yellow Peril” (3) 
The Bohemians who after 15 years in this country still can’t speak English (4) 
The Italians, who when police don’t know name of an “escaped murderer” guess Pasquale & 9 times out of 10 are right (5) 
The “wild-eyed” & “drunken” Hungarians who came to work in the iron & steel mills of Johnstown (6) 
The Chinese polluted by “ages of senseless idolatory, a mere grub worship” (7) 
The Italians, Poles & Russians who were “beaten men from beaten races, representing the worst failures in the struggle for existence” (8)
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The “unassimilable,” “filthy, un-American” Russian Poles & Polish Jews who were “dangerous in their habits” (9) 
“The hordes of the wretched, submerged populations of the Polish ghettos” (10) 
The Filipinos in California whose sexual urges couldn’t keep them from dime-a-dance clubs (11) 
Hawaiians before they gained statehood, who might lead us to have a senator named “Moto” (12) 
The Mexicans who “do not assimilate satisfactorily into our society” (13) 
The Cuban “boat people” who were gangsters, drug dealers & homosexuals (14)
The Dominicans, who in the words of our Attorney General, lack “a provable skill that would benefit us and that would indicate their likely success in our society” (16)
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Sources: Guarding the Golden Door, We Wanted Workers, How the Other Half Lives, Johnstown Flood (17)
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