“Ted Kennedy’s Immigration Reform Act of 1965 has created a situation in which 85 percent of our immigrants hail from the Third World and Asia.”
The 1965 Act was an abomination, but let’s be honest- not many Europeans would be coming here even if we had more liberal immigration policies. Their birth rates are way down, and too many of them are enamored of their own welfare states in Europe to come to the US and a more competitive economy.
Just look at Ireland- at one time they were having babies left and right, had a poor economy, and America was the safety valve. Same with Germany. If we favored Europeans more in immigration, some Irish and Germans would come here, but nothing remotely comarable to the old days.
And I’m not sure how much we want Russian or eastern European immigrants- the Russian immigrants we have tend to be disproportionately involved in fraud and crime. They are used to the easy buck and corruption of the East Bloc and bring that with them.
So yes, we’ve done a horrible job passing laws, but it’s also true that the pool of desirable immigrants has gone down.
Not true. Europeans are effectively barred from immigrating to the U.S. now in any numbers because Family Reunification became the dominant component of immigration law after 1965. Few Americans had identifiable close family anymore in Europe since it has been generations from when their ancestors immigrated.
There are high unemployment rates in Western Europe and much of Eastern Europe excluding Russia. Polish immigration into Britain is massive right now. They go there because EU rules now allow them to. They might like to come here, but can't, because immigration laws and patterns over the last 40 years favors Mexico and Asia.
The United States is being intentionally re-populated with non-Europeans because the dominant attitude of the elites is that America was illegitimate when it was majority White.