A 1920 terrorist attack sparked calls for restricting immigration — from Europe
These days, these calls tend to target immigration from Muslim countries, or by Muslim migrants. But in the early 20th century, when anarchist violence was deemed the main terrorist threat to the US, Southern and Eastern Europeans came in for similar targeting. Case in point: After the Wall Street bombing of September 16, 1920, an attack from Italian anarchists that killed 38 people in what was up to that point the deadliest terrorist strike on American soil ever, the Washington Post editorial board called in explicitly racist terms to keep out “alien scum from the cesspools and sewers of the Old World”:
▻http://www.vox.com/2016/3/24/11298956/washington-post-immigration-1920
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