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| A history of American anti-immigrant bias, starting with Benjamin Franklins hatred of the GermansMerelli, Annalisahttp://qz.com/904933/a-history-of-american-anti-immigrant-bias-starting-with-benjamin-franklins-hatred-of-the-germans/ 
 Publisher:  Quartz
 Date Written:  12/02/2017
 Year Published:  2017
 Resource Type:  Article
 
 In the 1750s, the United States of America was not yet a country, but its trouble with immigrants already had begun. People of non-WASP (white Anglo-Saxon Protestant) descent were crossing the ocean to start new lives in the new world, and earlier Colonial settlers were none too happy about it.
 
 
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