How the Crisis at the Southern Border Began in China | Julia Young

Julia Young of Catholic University discusses how economic interests competed with nativist fears in America's debate over immigration, how the effort to secure the US border with Mexico was originally out of concern about Chinese immigrants, and how the Irish and Italians once evoked the same fears many express over those crossing our southern border today.

Julia's article, which served as the basis for this conversation, can be accessed here: https://www.immigrationresearch.org/system/files/Making_America_1920_Again.pdf

Her book, Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War, can be purchased here: https://www.amazon.com/Mexican-Exodus-Emigrants-Refugees-Cristero/dp/0190205008

Sign up for YDHTY's email newsletter for commentary on this episode and other issues of the day at www.ydhty.com/news