alt Hacker News> America was very much against immigrants between about 1925 and 1965.
And still despite immigration reforms and national origin quotas, USA still accepted by far more immigrants during this time period than any other country.
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expedition32 • today at 12:07 AM
Because there was a difference between what the PEOPLE wanted and what the ELITES wanted.
The railroad barron needed cheap labour and didn't give a flying fuck about the KKK clowns marching in Washington.
Per capita far from (Australia and Canada, Israel, France, Taiwan, Switzerland , Belgium, Argentina...) on an absolute number sure because they were the most populous industrialized country. Even the latter you could argue against as west Germany had many after WW2 move from all over 'back to' Germany.