No one should have been surprised about what was happening with immigration. The president made it perfectly clear: “America must be kept American,” he said. That president was Calvin Coolidge. He ...

Donald Trump has long explicitly challenged a foundational myth of American identity: the idea of the United States as a nation of immigrants that welcomes the world’s “huddle ...

The Immigration Act of 1924 later enacted visa requirements and restrictions for Eastern Europeans and Jewish people. Many people forget that their own ancestors probably didn’t go through these ...