{"id":19642,"date":"2025-09-24T20:51:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T20:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19642"},"modified":"2025-09-24T20:51:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T20:51:46","slug":"the-unwanted-immigration-and-nativism-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19642","title":{"rendered":"The Unwanted: Immigration and Nativism in America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;\u201cnativism, xenophobia, and racism are hardly uniquely American phenomena. What makes them significant in America is that they run counter to the nation\u2019s founding ideals. At least since the enshrinement of Enlightenment ideas of equality and inclusiveness in the founding documents of the new nation, to be a nativist in this country was to be in conflict with its fundamental tenets.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-american-immigration-council wp-block-embed-american-immigration-council\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"1KiZ1Mavnm\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org\/report\/unwanted-immigration-and-nativism-america\/\">The Unwanted: Immigration and Nativism in America<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;The Unwanted: Immigration and Nativism in America&#8221; &#8212; American Immigration Council\" src=\"https:\/\/www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org\/report\/unwanted-immigration-and-nativism-america\/embed\/#?secret=63P3rHabiT#?secret=1KiZ1Mavnm\" data-secret=\"1KiZ1Mavnm\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;\u201cnativism, xenophobia, and racism are hardly uniquely American phenomena. What makes them significant in America is that they run counter to the nation\u2019s founding ideals. At least since the enshrinement of Enlightenment ideas of equality and inclusiveness in the founding documents of the new nation, to be a nativist in this country was to be in conflict with its fundamental tenets.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org\/report\/unwanted-immigration-and-nativism-america\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[431,1173,26,493,25,2251,642,758],"class_list":["post-19642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-democracy","tag-founders","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigrants","tag-immigration","tag-nativism","tag-race","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19643,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19642\/revisions\/19643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}