I ask because I often hear of discrimination against Irish or Italian or Polish or Slavic immigrants (basically anyone who is not Anglo-Saxon) and yet I have never heard a word about how German immigrants were thought of during the First and Second Immigrations Waves.
Were they also subject to discrimination? Was it to the same degree as other white immigrants? Was there any worry about all the German language and whether all of these immigrants would be successfully Anglicized/Americanized?
They were famously distrusted from their arrival by Benjamin Franklin who wanted them to assimilate more easily.
But apart from that perhaps unexpected bias, Anti-German sentiment would take some more dark turns in early US history. For instance, it led in part to the oft-forgotten Fries Rebellion, and the harsh punishments that nearly followed it. One instance doesn't spell out an overarching theme, or an insurmountable challenge. So yes, there was an early bias against Germans in American history, but no, apart from during the First World War, it was perhaps not as severe as other immigrant experiences.