The new campaign is not the first to use national pride and patriotism to promote anti-immigrant sentiment. The DHS graphic joins a long line of anti-immigration propaganda present throughout America’s <\/span>history<\/span><\/a> of border policy changes and cultural acceptance of migrants.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n A political cartoon published in the <\/span>1850s<\/span><\/a> depicts Irish and German voters stealing a ballot box in a chaotic scene at the election polls. Likely by political cartoonist John H. Goater, the cartoon represents the sentiment at the time that immigrant voters had too much political power.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In an 1886<\/a> advertisement for Magic Washer laundry detergent, manufactured by Geo. Dee of Dixon, Illinois,<\/span> Uncle Sam is shown kicking a caricature of a Chinese migrant off a cliff to join other migrants as they run to the ocean, where a Chinese ship is sailing. The ad reads, “The Chinese must go.” At the time, the <\/span>Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882<\/span><\/a>, which created a 10-year ban on laborers from China, was very <\/span>popular<\/span><\/a> among workers who feared Chinese laborers would undercut wages. <\/span><\/p>\n Published in <\/span>1896<\/span><\/a>, this cartoon depicts Uncle Sam holding his nose while begrudgingly allowing a traveler to enter the United States. The traveler is depicted as bringing with him “sabbath desecration,” “superstition,” “poverty,” “disease,” “infidelity,” “intemperance,” and “anarchy.” The bottom of the cartoon reads:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Emigrant.\u2014May I come in?<\/p>\n Uncle Sam.\u2014I ‘spose you can; there’s no law to keep you out.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The satirical magazine <\/span>Judge<\/span><\/i> published this cartoon in <\/span>1903<\/span><\/a>. It shows Uncle Sam holding an American flag while watching “the slums of Europe” be dumped in the Atlantic Ocean. Rat-human hybrids from Italy labeled as “socialists,” “mafia,” and “anarchists” swim to shore carrying weapons labeled with “murder” and “assassination.” Meanwhile, Uncle Sam thinks of President William McKinley, whose <\/span>assassination<\/span><\/a> in 1901 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz led to the passage of the <\/span>Immigration Act of 1903<\/span><\/a> and the <\/span>extreme vetting<\/span><\/a> of immigrants. (Czolgosz was born in Detroit, Michigan,<\/span> to parents who had migrated from Poland.)<\/span><\/p>\n Published in <\/span>1921<\/span><\/a>, a political cartoon portrays Uncle Sam enforcing a 3 percent limit on European immigrants entering the U.S., with the phrase “The only way to handle it” printed below. The cartoon is a reference to the <\/span>Emergency Quota Act<\/span><\/a>, which allowed only 3 percent of the foreign countries’ total 1910 census populations to immigrate to America.<\/span><\/p>\n While the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has raised <\/span>constitutional<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>due process<\/span><\/a> concerns, it is, unfortunately, just the latest chapter in America’s on-again, off-again relationship with migrants.<\/span>\u00a0President Donald Trump is not the first president, nor will he be the last, to stoke the flames of out-group fear while expanding government power. <\/span><\/p>\n The post A Brief History of American Propaganda Against 'Foreign Invaders'<\/a> appeared first on Reason.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Department of Homeland Security’s recent campaign is just the latest chapter. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":""},"categories":[19,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/3rdcitynews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117350"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/3rdcitynews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/3rdcitynews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3rdcitynews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3rdcitynews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/3rdcitynews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/3rdcitynews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3rdcitynews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3rdcitynews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Irish and German Voters Stealing an Election<\/b><\/h1>\n
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