Mercury and Venus

Happy St. Paddy's Day!  I don't have a speck of Irish in me but I celebrate it anyway.  Good time to consider all of the waves of immigrants that came to this country.  In the 1800's the Irish came because of a potato blight in Ireland.  Here they were met w/ signs  "No Irish Need Apply".  Later in that century Chinese immigrants were singled out as "unskilled labor" and given the pejorative title 'coolie'.   Still later the U.S. Immigration Commission concluded that "certain types of criminality is inherent in the Italian race" and laws were enacted to make it difficult for them to come.   Nice to know that all of these groups were eventually able to make America home and that we are the richer for it.