
Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch
There was also the Naturalization Act of 1790, which limited citizenship to immigrants who were "free White persons of good character," thus prohibiting naturalization for Native Americans, indentured servants, freed slaves, and all Asians. The law was only fully repealed in 1952 — PolitiTweet.org
Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch
They're as old as the Republic itself and as politically motivated then as they are today, cf the Alien and Seditio… https://t.co/ZwCQ0mWsWC