"Historian Jean Pfaelzer, author of Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans writes about an America that does not look like America: the eighty towns (so far) that have passed versions of the "Illegal Immigration Relief Act" criminalizing the rental of property to undocumented immigrants. Thus have wide swathes of Middle America willingly turned themselves into municipal police states.

In her book, Pfaelzer writes about entire towns cleaned of their Chinese populations by gun-toting vigilantes. That was the 19th century. They do it more bureaucratically now."