1902 article: "Immigration's Menace to the National Health"
In 1902, the U.S. commissioner-general of immigration, T.V. Powderly, articulated the threat he believed immigrants posed to the national health. The new immigrants, he argued weren't like "the sturdy Englishman, Irishman, Scotchman, Welshman, German and north countryman who came strong in limb and pure in blood."
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The president and allies hyped the threat posed by infected people crossing the border illegally, saying the border wall would stop them. The real threat was from normal social interactions that continued in the absence of a coordinated, border-wide public-health response.
The president and allies hyped the threat posed by infected people crossing the border illegally, saying the border wall would stop them. The real threat was from normal social interactions that continued in the absence of a coordinated, border-wide public-health response.
