I say jokingly. because I have no way of knowing. that in 1911. when my mother came off the boat in Baltimore. having arrived as a 2yearold little girl from Lithuania. and came down that ramp with my grandmother and her brother and sister. I am sure there were people looking up at this group coming in. saying: Please. not more of those people. That has been the nature of America. We know we are almost all immigrants or the descendants of immigrants. Yet there is a resistance that is built into our country to more coming in: They are different. there may be too many of them. they may threaten our jobsall of those things. And we saw that sentiment. not on the floor of the Senate or the House. but certainly we heard it on television. on radio.
Identified stereotypes
Immigrants are seen as 'different' and a threat to jobs.