Last week, I posted on my Facebook page headlines clipped from an article in the Dec. 6, 1910, issue of The Salt Lake Tribune. The article was a scary warning about aliens.
These aliens were swarming into America under the guise of emigration from what we know today as “s---hole” countries.”
There were suggestions to address this problem in 1910. Indeed, they sound much like the ones proposed today. The immigration committee forwarded them to Congress.
“The commission,” The Tribune’s story stated, “presents several proposals by which restriction of immigration might be effected, including a reading and writing test, the exclusion of unmarried, unskilled laborers, limitations in the number arriving at any port and from particular races and restrictions as in the amount of money in their possession.