The United States has never been kind to immigrants. From the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to resistance to accepting Syrian refugees and fear-mongering over security on the US-Mexico border, America loves immigrant labor but refuses to grant the people who provide it any semblance of basic human dignity or decency. The origins of the American film industry follow this same pattern. From 1820 through 1881 , a steady wave of Central European Jews migrated to the United States to escape economic hardship. Starting in the 1880s and lasting until the 1920s, migrants were mostly from Eastern Europe because of...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
