Many different people groups throughout history have been targeted by nativism. Nativism is excluding the immigrants who come into the country whether it’s legally or illegally. However, throughout the United States’ history they have excluded so many people groups from the Chinese, to Europeans, and people from the Middle East. It seems like they try to do this in order to get the immigrants to leave, which never seems to work. The United States seems to have excluded more people groups then most other countries. They have come up with so many different laws and acts in order to ignore the minorities. For example, the “English Only Movement” (Crawford) which states that, “the U.S. launched a movement to restrict the language of government-
