“Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants Since 1882,” by Roger Daniels analyzes the United States’ immigration policy as one that has forever been flawed, putting forward a clear yet detailed criticism of how racism, blind politics, and ignorance have overtaken the agenda of immigration legislation for the past 140 years. Specifically, he claims that immigration laws have had an evocative effect on the immigrants of all eras and these laws have become stricter due to the nativists’ fear of an increased foreign threat. The prevailing belief during periods of restricted immigration was that alien groups, due to their innate inferiority, were not capable of absorbing the country’s values and ideologies and therefore