It also happens to be at the time of the greatest influx of Middle Eastern Christians. (until about a century ago the Christian population of the middle east was about 40%)
Posted on 11/18/2015 2:42:21 PM PST by Kaslin
“From 1924 to 1965 we didn’t have any immigration.”
That can’t be true. There all sorts of emigres who came here during that period fleeing this or that.
Of course Obama has a religious test for refugees. How else can one explain the fact he wants tens of thousands of Muslims to come here, but his administration has only let in 53 Syrian Christians. And the Christians are the ones being beheaded and crucified.
We had very very little.
A bunch of artists and scientists came here fleeing the Bolsheviks and Nazis. Nabokov, Rachmaninov, Thomas Mann...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3361401/posts
I cited that exact section and made the same point yesterday. Keep coming here, Rush, you'll see a lot of good stuff on this forum.
Bookmarked.
I've heard Rush say that two or three times and he's incorrect. Immigration was low during those years compared to now, but the US did average around 200,000 per year.
Can't find a table of historical immigration by year to US now, but have in the past.
Rush is missing some years.
My grandparents came to the States in the 50’s. They fled from Europe on a ship. They had to have sponsors in order to enter the USA and my mom had received a scholarship to a Catholic College otherwise she wouldn’t have been allowed in.
How times have changed.
I’ve read that he’s turning away some Christians because they don’t fit his definition of persecuted, because he doesn’t want to include religion in the definition.
That is cool, thanks for sharing.
I love Rush, but he's simply wrong.
My father, his parents, and his aunt's family of four came here from Berlin in 1938,39.
ML/NJ
I don’t know much, but they did turn down a lot of Jews before the holocaust.
We had the Cuban refugees but that was not a huge amount of people.
Here is a graph of legal immigration to the US from 1820 to 2013. It looks like the average between the 1920s and 1965 ranged from a few tens of thousands some years to 200,000 plus some years. But still far below the numbers of recent decades. So, Rush is wrong on this. One of the .03% times he's wrong, I guess.
Go to link below, then click on: Legal Immigration to the United States, 1820-2013
There was the famous case of the SS St. Louis that was turned away, but I don't if a lot were turned away, or if very many were even able to make to the US to ask for entry.
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That can’t be true. There all sorts of emigres who came here during that period fleeing this or that. "
And there are possibly more problems with Mr. Limbaughs statement then he knows.
I am sorry to say that these days patriots need to check every action of the corrupt federal government against its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers. And in the case of so-called federal immigration laws, the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate immigration imo.
More specifically, regardless of PC interpretations of the Constitutions ”uniform Rule of Naturalization” Clause (1.8.4) used to justify federal immigration laws, and the slavery-related clause (1.9.1), Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, Madison generally regarded as the father of the Constitution, had clarified, in the context of state sovereignty nonetheless, that the Founding States had not delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate immigration.
Here is the relevant excerpt from Jeffersons writings.
” 4. _Resolved_, That alien friends are under the jurisdiction and protection of the laws of the State wherein they are: that no power over them has been delegated to the United States, nor prohibited to the individual States, distinct from their power over citizens. And it being true as a general principle, and one of the amendments to the Constitution having also declared, that ”the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people,” the act of the Congress of the United States, passed on the - day of July, 1798, intituled ”An Act concerning aliens,” which assumes powers over alien friends, not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void, and of no force [emphasis added].” Thomas Jefferson, Draft of the Kentucky Resolutions - October 1798.
Here is the related excerpt from Madison's writings from the Virginia Resolutions.
"That the General Assembly doth particularly protest against the palpable and alarming infractions of the Constitution, in the two late cases of the ”Alien and Sedition Acts" passed at the last session of Congress; the first of which exercises a power no where delegated to the federal government, .... . .
. . . the General Assembly doth solemenly appeal to the like dispositions of the other states, in confidence that they will concur with this commonwealth in declaring, as it does hereby declare, that the acts aforesaid, are unconstitutional; and that the necessary and proper measures will be taken by each, for co-operating with this state, in maintaining the Authorities, Rights, and Liberties, referred to the States respectively, or to the people [emphasis added]. ” James Madison, Draft of the Virginia Resolutions - December 1798.
It is not entirely true at all:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Origins_Formula
History is awesome. But not all of it is worth repeating.
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