The Atlantic magazine has an interesting article on US immigration policy, where staff writer Caitlin Dickerson writes “America Never Wanted the Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses“.

We are a multiethnic, multiracial nation where millions of people have found safety, economic opportunity, and freedoms they may not have otherwise had. Yet racial stereotypes, rooted in eugenics, that portray people with dark skin and foreign passports as being inclined toward crime, poverty, and disease have been part of our immigration policies for so long that we mostly fail to see them.