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  1. Coolidge, the president who signed laws creating the concept of "illegal alien" (in 1921 and 1924), on his racist motives. #DefendDACA
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      The effect of Coolidge-era immigration restrictions was a sharp drop in migration, lasting thru #WW2 refugee crisis.
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      Madison Grant's book _The Passing of the Great Race_ was a crucial polemic behind the 1920s immigration restrictions.
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        Madison Grant's anti-immigrant book, which divided Europeans into three races, got good reviews in Science & Sat Evening Post…
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          … and then became central to Nazi racial ideology, and the colonization, invasion, and enslavement of Slavic peoples.
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            Nazis didn't have to learn antisemitism from Americans but they did model the Nuremberg laws on US race categorization law.
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              The Nazis, however, found US rules of racial descent too aggressive. Only those with one Jewish grandparent were classified as mixed.
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