Posted on 05/22/2021 3:28:16 PM PDT by Jacquerie
When the U.S. Congress passed—and President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law—the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, the move was largely seen as symbolic.
"The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants,” lead supporter Sen. Edward “Ted” Kennedy (D-Mass.) told the Senate during debate. “It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission. It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs.”
That sentiment was echoed by Johnson, who, upon signing the act on October 3, 1965, said the bill would not be revolutionary: “It does not affect the lives of millions … It will not reshape the structure of our daily lives or add importantly to either our wealth or our power.”
But the act—also known as the Hart-Celler Act after its sponsors, Sen. Philip Hart (D-Mich.) and Rep. Emanuel Celler (D-N.Y.)—put an end to long-standing national-origin quotas that favored those from northern and western Europe and led to a significant immigration demographic shift in America. Since the act was passed, according to the Pew Research Center, immigrants living in America have more than quadrupled, now accounting for nearly 14 percent of the population.
In 1960, Pew notes, 84 percent of U.S. immigrants were born in Europe or Canada; 6 percent were from Mexico, 3.8 percent were from South and East Asia, 3.5 percent were from Latin America and 2.7 percent were from other parts of the world. In 2017, European and Canadian immigrants totaled 13.2 percent, while Mexicans totaled 25.3 percent, other Latin Americans totaled 25.1 percent, Asians totaled 27.4 percent and other populations totaled 9 percent.
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I hope Ted is nice and toasty, wherever he is.
Dilution of the WASP vote in America has been in the works a long time. Today, the rats are on the verge of cancelling it.
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Apparently Minnesota, which I believe is considered a State in the Heartland of America, is now ruled by viciously anti-American Muslim thugs.
Import Third World.
Become Third World.
“It changed immigration demographics and increased immigrant numbers.”
They cite demographic percentages to 3 digits, but don’t say how much the number increased ... because it’s jaw-dropping.
That must be the year when the teacher called the roll on the first day
of school in September at my school in my middle Georgia town, and
it included: De Laosa; Del Portillo; Martinez, Mendoza, San Martin, etc.
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Democracy doesn’t work when you bulk import voters.
The rat’s Long March through our institutions is just about over.
The Coinage Act of 1965 did far more harm to our society and the destruction is Accelerating at Record pace.
The democrat party has been a bunch of racists for all of its existence and this law destroyed my country before I was even born.
In 1965 we changed the long standing policy of inviting and accepting the brightest and the healthiest of wannabes. We switched that over to preferring the poor, the ignorant, the unskilled, and the just plain Low IQ.
My step-grandparents immigrated from Germany a few years after WWI. He was a skilled machinist and she was a naval architect. Neither knew hardly a word of English, yet they were sort of people the US accepted then and should accept today.
Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law many unethical bills. Sad. Rewarding the theft of citizenship is cruel to Americans. Sad how some Americans cannot appreciate how good they have it.
That horse has left the barn in 1965.
And what of some of his tactics and practices? But try to find much of anything negative in the Wikipedia page on him.
It was his great society BS.
1965 will be known in history as the beginning of the decline of American capitalism. Count in the Civil rights act and the beginning of the welfare state. Johnson’s great society, IMHO, was the beginning of the end!
Yep
That immigration change guaranteed civil war sooner or later.
We need to freeze ALL immigration until further notice and really stop the illegal invasion.
Even with the freeze civil war will come and when it does and we win it we will have to expel the surviving leftists.
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