Posted on 06/05/2005 8:19:23 AM PDT by austinite
The United States Immigration Act of 1924, also known as the National Origins Act or the Johnson-Reed Act, limited the number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of person from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890 according to the census of 1890. It superseded the 1921 Emergency Quota Act. The law was aimed at further restricting the Southern and Eastern Europeans who had begun to enter the country in large numbers beginning in the 1890s, as well as East Asians and Asian Indians, who were prohibited from immigrating entirely. It set no limits on immigration from Latin America.
As an example of its effect, in the ten years following 1900 about 200,000 Italians immigrated every year. With the imposition of the 1924 quota, only 4,000 per year were allowed. At the same time, the annual quota for Germany was over 57,000. 86% of the 165,000 permitted entries were from the British Isles, France, Germany, and other Northern European countries.
The quotas remained in place with minor alterations until the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.
Obviously a law that has been forgotten and rendered useless by politicians who choose to ignore the immigration problem.
Yeah, but a lot of Freepers would discover that their original ethnic group was considered an "undesirable race".
My Grand Father was Italian, and I take no offense at all.
And with the serious decline in Italian birth/population
today, there would be even MORE limitations on Italy's
immigrants.
If US would stop bestowing citizenship on the children of the criminal illegals born in the US and stop giving free medical, that may stop some of the criminal flow into the US.
Just beneath the surface of the immigration issue is race. Make your decision and aim carefully because folks will shoot back this time, unlike 1924.
Damn few illegals have served in the military, as long as someone is here legally and wants to be part of our melting pot, welcome. Otherwise, they are unwelcome parasites, like a neighbor that comes over to borrow a cup of sugar, and ends up getting on the health plan, and sucking money out of dads wallet.
Have you ever been diagnosed with a mental illness?
Paranoia?
"Just beneath the surface of the immigration issue is race."
Ultimately, the issue is about which immigrants will improve America rather than leech from it. And the fact is that most of the Mexicans coming to the US have little education to speak of and they fully intend to export US capital back to their home countries. I have no doubt that if, say, Norwegians decided to come to the US they would bring a lot of education and capital with them.
Simultaneously, SCOTUS Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., (nothing vaguely resembling a conservative) was blathering from the bench in favor of mandatory sterilization of hillbillies in the South, saying: "Three generations of idiots are enough."
There would be a LOT less anxiety out there if people had more children as their ancestors did. If you do not have large families, why do you imagine that poor people from other countries (who make $3 a day in their homelands) are going to say: I would go to the USA and make $60 a day but, oh wait!, I would have to violate a law there. I guess that I, my wife and my kids will just have to make do on $3 per day. We would not want to violate a law."
They would also bring their welfare state socialism with them. Each nation has its ups and downs.
When debating the immigration situation I like to point out the many accomplishments that were achieved during that period of limited immigration some of which include the emergence of a middle class, great technological innovation, and the building of the interstate highway system.
Your argument is specious, first of all $3 dollars a day can go a long ways in some third world countries. Secondly, because we have something somebody else wants there is no obligation on our part to let them TAKE it.
By the way how many illegals do you house on your property?
In the early 1960's during the days of the "former" Soviet Union, Russian Premier Nikita Kruschev pounded his shoe on the podium of the United Nations and shouted to the West, "We will bury you!" Fearing an invasion from the Reds, America proceeded to build the most awesome military machine in history. Unfortunately, we forgot to guard our political homefront from being taken over by socialist - communist - liberal activists who would gain office and destroy American law by process of gradually installing the Communist agenda within our legal system and separate branches of government.
The Ten Planks of the Communist Party
1. Abolition of private property and the application of all rent to public purpose.
The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (1868), and various zoning, school & property taxes. Also the Bureau of Land Management.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
Misapplication of the 16th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, 1913, The Social Security Act of 1936.; Joint House Resolution 192 of 1933; and various State "income" taxes. We call it "paying your fair share".
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
We call it Federal & State estate Tax (1916); or reformed Probate Laws, and limited inheritance via arbitrary inheritance tax statutes.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
We call in government seizures, tax liens, Public "law" 99-570 (1986); Executive order 11490, sections 1205, 2002 which gives private land to the Department of Urban Development; the imprisonment of "terrorists" and those who speak out or write against the "government" (1997 Crime/Terrorist Bill); or the IRS confiscation of property without due process.
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
We call it the Federal Reserve which is a credit/debt system nationally organized by the Federal Reserve act of 1913. All local banks are members of the Fed system, and are regulated by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transportation in the hands of the State.
We call it the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Department of Transportation (DOT) madated through the ICC act of 1887, the Commissions Act of 1934, The Interstate Commerce Commission established in 1938, The Federal Aviation Administration, Federal Communications Commission, and Executive orders 11490, 10999, as well as State mandated driver's licenses and Department of Transportation regulations.
7. Extention of factories and instruments of production owned by the State, the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
We call it corporate capacity, The Desert Entry Act and The Department of Agriculture. As well as the Department of Commerce and Labor, Department of Interior, the Evironmental Protection Agency, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau of Mines, National Park Service, and the IRS control of business through corporate regulations.
8. Equal liablity of all to labor. Establishment of Industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
We call it the Social Security Administration and The Department of Labor. The National debt and inflation caused by the communal bank has caused the need for a two "income" family. Woman in the workplace since the 1920s, the 19th amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, assorted Socialist Unions, affirmative action, the Federal Public Works Program and of course Executive order 11000.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.
We call it the Planning Reorganization act of 1949 , zoning (Title 17 1910-1990) and Super Corporate Farms, as well as Executive orders 11647, 11731 (ten regions) and Public "law" 89-136.
10. Free education for all children in government schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc. etc.
People are being taxed to support what we call "public" schools, which train the young to work for the communal debt system. We also call it the Department of Education, the NEA and Outcome Based "Education"
It is common sense to restrict immigration to the level that does not have a dramatic effect on the culture. Otherwise a country becomes just a place on the map.
Couldn't have said it better myself!
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