{"id":2572,"date":"2024-05-24T20:34:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T20:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/?p=2572"},"modified":"2024-07-25T12:30:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T12:30:32","slug":"100-years-ago-the-us-took-a-break-from-immigration-and-america-thrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/?p=2572","title":{"rendered":"100 years ago, the US took a break from immigration \u2014 and America thrived"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One hundred years ago this Sunday, the Ellis Island wave of immigration was brought to an end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And all Americans are better for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For decades we\u2019ve been taught to be ashamed of the period of immigration restriction the law inaugurated.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-basic wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/05\/24\/opinion\/100-years-ago-the-us-halted-immigration-and-america-thrived\/\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"100 years ago, the US took a break from immigration \u2014 and America thrived\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/opinion-immigration-comp.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;1716557743&amp;w=1024\" style=\"max-width: 150px; max-height: 150px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-title\">100 years ago, the US took a break from immigration \u2014 and America thrived<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-summary\">One hundred years ago this Sunday, the Ellis Island wave of immigration was brought to an end. And all Americans are better for it.<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One hundred years ago this Sunday, the Ellis Island wave of immigration was brought to an end. And all Americans are better for it. For decades we\u2019ve been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2574,"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions\/2574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}