Government
May 16, 2006
Immigration Debate Has Raged for 225 Years
LOS ANGELES - George Washington wanted to take in all the poor, needy and oppressed of the earth. Benjamin Franklin, however, fretted an open-border policy might invite the wrong crowd.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - George Washington wanted to take in all the poor, needy and oppressed of the earth.
Benjamin Franklin, however, fretted an open-border policy might invite the wrong crowd. The bespectacled diplomat feared foreigners, including the 50,000 English convicts allowed in, would be a corrosive influence on the new ...
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