[dennisw]

Pre-Hart Celler laws discriminated against southern and eastern Europeans too. Nevertheless, those are some good points. We can’t all be king, however. ;-)

Bullcrap! (with all due respect)
If this were true we wouldn't have so many Italians, Polish and Greeks in America. And check out Chicago and the Midwest--- Teaming with Eastern and Central Europeans

[Clemenza]

WRONG! The laws passed in 1924 STRICTLY RESTRICTED immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe, and favored immigrants from Ireland and the UK. The Poles/Italians/Lugans mostly came BEFORE the 1924 laws:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924