Okay, the issue with Mexican immigration we say we don't hate mexicans we hate illegals because they are criminals. Well, with the comparison to the irish and the germans, they say "They came legally". Well if they came legally, then what was the problem? They we're looked down upon and treated horribly by Americans. So then wasn't it racism? Could it be racism now with the guise of the issue being the legality of their presence here? What do you think.
The Irish had been coming to America for years, but in the 1840's the potato famine crushed their homeland. During that decade, a fourth of the population died of disease and hunger, and many fled to the U.S. (Bailey 325). Here, they lived at the bottom of the social scale, working as menial laborers and domestic servants, and living in squalid conditions. The native population looked down on them, considering them less clean and hygienic (Daniels 131).
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