postman
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Our early immigration had no controls. In fact the constitution let the states decide who and how many could come in.We allow immigration, controlled immigration as part of our national heritage
What we are seeing now is an invasion, with NO CONTROLS at all.
So the idea of control didn't come about until post civil war.
The Page Act of 1875 (Sect. 141, 18 Stat. 477, 3 March 1875) was the first restrictive federal immigration law in the United States, which effectively prohibited the entry of Chinese women, marking the end of open borders.