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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