Reading @jialynnyang's book. Rekt by this paragraph. Imagine being an Asian-American fighting all the way to the Supreme Court for citizenship, losing, and then having your only son die fighting for this country in WWII. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozawa_v._United_States
Wow, this country really did not want to accept Jewish refugees as the Holocaust started.
The U.S. still didn't want to accept that many Jewish refugees after the Holocaust ended.
As you can tell, I like U.S. immigration policy histories. "Impossible Subjects" by Mae Ngai is also great. https://www.amazon.com/Impossible-Subjects-Illegal-America-Politics-ebook/dp/B00HKMUY5C/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=mae+ngai&qid=1590443102&s=digital-text&sr=1-2
And so is "The Guarded Gate," which is almost like a prequel to Yang's book about the run-up to the 1924 immigration law and its roots in eugenics and race science. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MKDJP4Z/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
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