What you write is correct but I don’t think that the results of Hart-Celler were unintended. They fit the ideology of the staffer who wrote it. Chase down his name and you will find a story.
All that Ted Kennedy did is carry the bill, he was too lazy and drunk to pay attention and probably wouldn’t have cared anyway. The rest of Congress took the claims about the bill at face value and didn’t examine it. If there was any real opposition to the bill I don’t remember hearing of it.
Larry Auster was brilliant. And like the VDare crowd he was banned here. So it was difficult to take on the open borders Bush fools and alert people about what immigration is doing to the country. Here in California we were at ground zero for the massive demographic change that is now hitting the rest of the country. We are probably beyond the tipping point.
Oh yes, I know...
Icould be wrong, sir, but in his last years of life, this particular Congressman realized what a mistake he had made by opening the immigration floodgates.
But by then it was too late: in 1972 he was defeated in a primary due to his resistance against feminism and the Equal Rights Act.
So, though he was definitely a “man of the left” on immigration matters, he might have been a little more moderate in his stance on feminism.
And unfortunately, he had too many supporters in both houses of Congress, as has already been pointed out by participants in this debate.
At the same time, his opponent Sam Ervin, a down-to-earth conservative Southern Democrat and a steadfast defender of the old immigration law, was derided by large parts of the media, who lent support to the immigration reformers in Congress.
And the whole matter went even worse with the present immigration law, which was enacted in 1990. H1-B and visa lottery anyone? Sigh.