Answer: To cut off New England from the rest of the colonies.
 
        
             
        
        
        
America hung Saddam Hussein for committing crimes against humanity not war<span />
        
                    
             
        
        
        
They believed that the immigrants were hurting Americans(more strictly, immigrants that were not descendants of the original 13 colonies). A significant example is the Know Nothing or American Party of the 1850s. An earlier example is the Federalist Party which extended the time required to be American to 14 years through the Alien and Sedition Acts.
        
             
        
        
        
It’s either c or d, I’ll put the actual answer in the comments just give me a sec