[Ads-l] Early QOTY candidate for 2016

[Laurence Horn]

> On Jan 20, 2016, at 5:35 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 1:52 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
> 
>> More than few, I'd say, although perhaps someone with a more detailed =
>> knowledge of the history of restrictive immigration laws and policies =
>> (including those barring/restricting entry to those of her own Sikh =
>> ethnicity) might chime in usefully.  I believe she also missed the =
>> Japanese internment episode, which certainly relates to race, ethnicity, =
>> and immigration.
>> 
> 
> And, of course, there were slavery, the black codes, and Jim Crow.

As I mentioned yesterday, but we're now (since Dan Goncharoff's observation about the context) considering Haley's comments within the scope of the first part of her sentence, "When it comes to legal immigration..."

LH

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