Between 1800 and 1875, immigration laws were regulated and enforced at the state level. However, in 1875, Congress began to regulate some aspects of national immigration law. Despite the country’s origin as a nation allegedly built by immigrants for immigrants in order to foster economic opportunities for all people, the elected politicians were very selective about the nationalities of the immigrants who were accepted, and about their social standing. The earlier laws made it possible for immigration officials to refuse entry to the country to people of social classes that were deemed unfit, including lunatics, idiots, the insane, prostitutes, and paupers. Additionally, following the assassination of President McKinley in 1882, Congress made legal the discrimination against any non-citizens based on their race or their ideology.…