June 2021
An Asylum Issue
Our country has a long history of granting asylum to people in need. It was not usually an issue of compassion, however; it was the pragmatic need to increase the population of this country, particularly the need for inexpensive labor. We took in the Irish, victims of the British-made famine, and they served as domestic help and heavy labor building the railroads.
But they suffered suspicion as Catholics, fearing their loyalty was to the Pope, not the country. They were n more...