Posted on 05/23/2024 12:38:05 PM PDT by zeestephen
President Calvin Coolidge signed it into law on May 26, 1924...despite the various and often invidious motivations of the Act's supporters, its effect was overwhelmingly positive for Americans of all races...The act led to a significant decrease in immigration, which had positive social and economic effects.
(Excerpt) Read more at cis.org ...
Hard to believe it was only forty years until 1965.
Led to WWII...
https://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5077
Up to that point relations between America and Japan were cordial. Both were Allies during WWI. But Japan’s reaction set it on a path that ultimately led to Pearl Harbor.
The quota system in the 1924 law discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe (Italians, Greeks, Poles, etc.)...against those nationalities which had immigrated mostly after 1890. It meant that when Jews in the 1930s wanted to escape from Nazi Germany very few were allowed into the US. One of my professors, an Austrian Jew, now 89 years old, was able to immigrate with his family only because a relative already in the US sponsored them.
Its ironic that 1924 Japan, the most racially “pure,” nationalistic and arguably the most xenophobic/racist country in the world would criticize the USA on its immigration policies.
We hear similar hypocrisy from countries like China and others in 2024. They don’t care about their outright hypocrisy, they just want to shame the USA.
I suspect it was because Japan was sending a lot of spies to the US.
And you know that is precisely what China is doing now.
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
Excerpts from LBJ Library:
"On Oct. 3, 1965, at the base of the Statue of Liberty and with the island of Manhattan gleaming in the background, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Immigration and Nationality Act, also known as the Hart-Celler Act.
"In the previous 40 years before the act was signed, those who wanted to come to America were subject to a quota system. Immigration law favored immigrants from northern Europe and the British Isles, discriminated against those from southern and eastern Europe, and barred those from Asia and non-whites from entering the country.
"The Immigration and Nationality Act abolished quotas, opening the doors to "those who can contribute most to this country - to its growth, to its strength, to its spirit." The new law created a preference system that focused on immigrant skills and family relations with citizens or U.S. residents.
"President John F. Kennedy, whose Irish ancestors had faced prejudice, wanted immigration reform. As president, Johnson turned to Kennedy's brother, Ted, to help steer the bill through Congress."
Before 1924, how many white Americans and white Europeans were allowed to become Japanese citizens?
In 1924, what percentage of the Japanese population was Black African?
And it’s been all downhill since then.
Silent Cal was Da Man!
Our PDJT, The GOAT, would do well to follow some of Cal’s ways.
I spent a few years looking at that period and would search on eBay for old magazine articles about the fight, it was a many years intense battle.
The largely Catholic immigrants that had started coming in since the 1840s had been moving the country left and taking over the cities with unionism and socialism, corruption, and just general liberalism.
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