“…51 Even former advocates of immigration, such as Domingo Sarmiento, began to criticize the "Italianization" of Argentina as immigration reached a truly massive scale from the 1880s onward. 52 With a greater proportion of Italians now coming from the impoverished Mezzogiorno, even in Uruguay Italians, especially if they came from the south, began to suffer from prejudice. 53 Over time anti-immigrant attitudes were coupled with anxieties about working-class activism, leading to the Argentine law of residency that eased the expulsion of foreigners in 1902.…”