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Some people said crime had heightened because of the growing number of immigrants and colored who’d moved in looking for work since the start of the war,
“The churches and schools are to be closed,” she said. “All places for gathering, even the factories and moving picture houses, will not be open. No funerals are to be allowed either. Many people are getting sick, so everyone is to stay home.”
“What are you doing?” she cried. “Half these people are foreigners. They shouldn’t be trying to get help from doctors meant to help Americans. It’s not right!”
“This is America, they need to learn our language or go back where they came from!”
“the flood of undesirables from the darker sections of the Old World who are arriving in the United States with no conception of American ideas.”
the people running St. Vincent’s thought she and the other children were disposable,
The Catholic Church has long been only concerned with saving souls to join their god in heaven, not lives.
Again she asked herself why God allowed such injustice. Why should some suffer based on matters of luck and circumstance and place of birth?
