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We've never been that country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1907

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924

Jews in WW2: https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007094

If you had HIV: https://www.immigrationequality.org/get-legal-help/our-legal...

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What's important to note here is that in each case there was a large influx of people from a different culture who congregated in areas (think Chinatown) and took time to fully integrate into the current society. It is NORMAL for people to be apprehensive about new people from different areas who move into an area and change how things were (how the years liked it). I think it's important to be mindful of this, and not immediately start with calling those people racists, or idiots, or whatever, and recognize that a successful immigration policy must at its foundation be a slow, smooth influx, and not a shock to they system.

Sock puppet!

Also, we don't ever talk about this (although it affected many more poeple) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Repatriation

> In 2005, the State of California passed an official "Apology Act" to those forced to relocate to Mexico, an estimated 1.2 million of whom were United States citizens.

To be fair, Canada doesn't have the rosiest history in regards to immigration. My point being, if they can change, so can we.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Immigration_Act,_1923

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese-Canadian_internment

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/multiculturalism/holocaust/hist...

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