As stated previously, it is a commonly used technique that is often used to soothe or comfort those who are interacting with difficult history is to discard and cast the hard history away into the past. We cannot do that with this history. It is easy to see the pre-requisite cases as products of a troubled time, and evil villains who didn’t want to allow citizenship to newly arrived immigrants. However, by digging deeper and reshaping our ideas, we can see arguments for and against our modern-day immigration system. Sure, Connections can be made to our legal ideas on issues. We cannot be blind to law. And perhaps most importantly, we cannot be blind to the power that the law holds and continues to maintain in our society.
