Nearly 15% of people living in the United States are immigrants; if our nation’s story is a quilt, the immigrant community’s diverse stories are integral squares that hold it together.

Yet immigrants have always been an easy target for bad actors, who use xenophobia to scapegoat foreign-born communities. This was true in the nineteenth century when legislation like the Page and Chinese Exclusion Acts discriminated against Asian communities, and in the twentieth century, when the Immigration Act of 1903 targeted sex workers and people with epilepsy. It’s true today, and it impacts a variety of communities — perhaps most notably, the Latine community.

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LWVUS Blog / Last Updated: April 1, 2025
By: Alma Couverthie