Thanksgiving is a strange holiday. It started out from the Puritans giving thanks to the Indians for their having provided a feast to the new poor, starving immigrants.
How did whitey pay it forward? What follows is a brief history of American immigration.
Estoy aquí en Oregon en casa de mi papá y mi madrastra y estamos preparando la comida y demás cosas para nuestros invitados que no tardan en llegar.
El Día de acción de gracias es un día festivo extraño. Tiene sus orígenes en la historia estadunidense cuando los puritanos agradecieron a los indígenas por haberles dado un festín cuando se morían de hambre, estos nuevos inmigrantes.
A continuación, la una breve historia migratoria de los EE.UU. (Ojo: los gringos no fueron tan generosos como los indígenas fueron con ellos).
1795 Naturalization Act restricts citizenship to "free white persons" who reside in the United States for five years and renounce their allegiance to their former country.
1882 Chinese Exclusion Act restricts Chinese immigration.
1923 In the landmark case of United States v. Bhaghat Singh Thind, the Supreme Court rules that Indians from the Asian subcontinent could not become naturalized U.S. citizens.
1934 The Tydings-McDuffie Act, which provided for independence for the Philippines on July 4, 1946, strips Filipinos of their status as U.S. nationals and severely restricted Filipino immigration by establishing an annual immigration quota of 50.
1942 Filipinos are reclassified as U.S. citizens, making it possible for them to register for the military. Executive Order 9066 authorizes the military to evacuate 112,000 Japanese Americans from the Pacific coast and placed them in ten internment camps.
1944 In the case of United States v. Korematsu, the Supreme Court upholds the internment of Japanese Americans as constitutional.
1954 Operation Wetback forces the return of undocumented workers to Mexico. [What a name!]
Source:
"Landmarks in Immigration History". Digital History. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/immigration_chron.cfm
