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To: Plutarch
And after all, we did have a long history of unlimited quotas for Western Hemisphere immigrants, ending only in 1965.

Oh really?

The 1965 Immigration Act: Anatomy of a Disaster

"Born of liberal ideology, the 1965 bill abolished the national origins quota system that had regulated the ethnic composition of immigration in fair proportion to each group's existing presence in the population. In a misguided application spirit of the civil rights era, the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations saw these ethnic quotas as an archaic form of chauvinism. Moreover, as Cold Warriors facing charges of "racism" and "imperialism," they found the system rhetorically embarrassing."

"Senate floor manager and Camelot knight-errant Ted Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, assured jittery senators that "our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually." Time has proven otherwise. Average immigration levels before the 1965 amendments took effect hovered around 300,000 per annum. Yet 1,045,000 legal immigrants flooded our cities in 1996 alone."

"America's current mass immigration mess is the result of a change in the laws in 1965. Prior to 1965, despite some changes in the 50's, America was a low-immigration country basically living under immigration laws written in 1924. Thanks to low immigration, the swamp of cheap labor was largely drained during this period, America became a fundamentally middle-class society, and our many European ethnic groups were brought together into a common national culture."

"In some ways, this achievement was so complete that we started to take for granted what we had achieved and forgot why it happened. So in a spasm of sentimentality on the Right and lies on the Left, we opened the borders."

13 posted on 05/21/2006 11:13:51 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Mr. Mojo

Nailed it.


17 posted on 05/21/2006 11:25:15 PM PDT by conservativeinmt
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To: Mr. Mojo

Glad you posted the 1965 Immigration Act. It was perhaps the biggest lie ever pulled on Americans. Could this be when Ted K set up his off shore accounts?


47 posted on 05/22/2006 6:06:52 PM PDT by Lumper20
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