Responding the Pandemic: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and COVID-19 in 2020?

Food for thought in the age of the coronavirus pandemic.  A proponent of zealous immigration enforcement and restricting immigration, President Trump has temporarily suspended immigration.  President History teaches us that in moments of crisis — including viral pandemics — some in society will push to demonize immigrants.  After the devastation wrought by the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, nativism prevailed and Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1924 with its discriminatory national origins quotas system. The legislation locked immigration into the predominantly northern European patterns of the late 19th century and and barred immigration from Asia.

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