Source: PROGRESSIVE FARMER, 9/1/21


Immigration is central to the American experience, so central that the Harvard historian Oscar Handlin began his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1951 book "The Uprooted" with the words, "Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history."(https://books.google.com/…) Yet if America is a nation of immigrants, it's also a nation of controversy over immigrants. Americans were already arguing about immigration back when they were colonial subjects of King George II. In 1753 Benjamin Franklin sought limits on the number of German immigrants to Pennsylvania, complaining they didn't learn English. (https://reimaginingmigration.org/…)

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