Hidetaka Hirota ON THE WAR ON THE IRISH POOR

I recently spoke with Hidetaka Hirota, an historian of American immigration and deportation law, about the thousands of Irish immigrants deported and excluded from Massachusetts and New York in the first half of the 1800s, and how these two states' immigration bureaucracies served as models for future federal immigration agencies.  
Expelling the Poor
Hidetaka Hirota