How about a new topic?
Posted on 12/28/2024 5:54:32 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
“In some ways, this achievement (inviting only immigrants who were NOT Third World) was so complete that we started to take for granted what we had achieved and forgot why it happened.”
Then, like Europe, we got cocky and believed that we could ‘civilize’ people from ANYWHERE in the world. In the US, maybe we can deport them in time. In Europe it’s Civil War and living as slaves.
“However, if there is one man who can take the most credit for the 1965 act, it is John F. Kennedy. Kennedy seems to have inherited the resentment his father Joseph felt as an outsider in Boston’s WASP aristocracy. He voted against the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, and supported various refugee acts throughout the 1950s.
In 1958 he wrote a book, A Nation of Immigrants, which attacked the quota system as illogical and without purpose, and the book served as Kennedy’s blueprint for immigration reform after he became president in 1960.
In the summer of 1963, Kennedy sent Congress a proposal calling for the elimination of the national origins quota system. He wanted immigrants admitted on the basis of family reunification and needed skills, without regard to national origin.
After his assassination in November, his brother Robert took up the cause of immigration reform, calling it JFK’s legacy. In the forward to a revised edition of A Nation of Immigrants, issued in 1964 to gain support for the new law, he wrote, “I know of no cause which President Kennedy championed more warmly than the improvement of our immigration policies.” Sold as a memorial to JFK, there was very little opposition to what became known as the Immigration Act of 1965.”
Ridiculous. Europeans were violently discriminated against much earlier than 1965.
This wasn’t as hidden as the article says.
This is the democrat party platform that JFK ran on in 1960.
Immigration:
We shall adjust our immigration, nationality and refugee policies to ELIMINATE DISCRIMINATION AND TO ENABLE MEMBERS OF SCATTERED FAMILIES ABROAD TO BE UNITED WITH RELATIVES ALREADY IN OUR MIDST.
THE NATIONAL-ORIGINS QUOTA SYSTEM OF LIMITING IMMIGRATION CONTRADICTS THE FOUNDING PRINCIPLES OF THIS NATION. It is inconsistent with our belief in the rights of man. This system was instituted after world war I AS A POLICY OF DELIBERATE DISCRIMINATION BY A REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION AND CONGRESS.
The revision of immigration and nationality laws we seek will implement our belief that enlightened immigration, naturalization and refugee policies and humane administration of them are important aspects of our foreign policy.
These laws will bring greater skills to our land, reunite families, permit the United States to meet its fair share of world programs of rescue and rehabilitation, and take advantage of immigration as an important factor in the growth of the American economy.
In this World Refugee Year it is our hope to achieve admission of our fair share of refugees. We will institute policies to alleviate suffering among the homeless wherever we are able to extend our aid.
We must remove the distinctions between native-born and naturalized citizens to assure full protection of our laws to all. There is no place in the United States for “second-class citizenship.”
The protections provided by due process, right of appeal, and statutes of limitation, can be extended to non-citizens without hampering the security of our nation.
We commend the Democratic Congress for the initial steps that have recently been taken toward liberalizing changes in immigration law. However, this should not be a piecemeal project and we are confident that a Democratic President in cooperation with Democratic Congresses will again implant a humanitarian and liberal spirit in our nation’s immigration and citizenship policies.
“Ridiculous. Europeans were violently discriminated against much earlier than 1965.”
So was every other culture. But they haven’t been slaves for an extended period since the Ottomans...and now they’ve demanded those days come back...so they’re coming back, probably in the lifetimes of many of us.
‘ So was every other culture.’
So it didn’t start in 1965? It’s just that people suck?
You don’t say.
I have no clue as to what you’re talking about, but cool, it’s the holidays!
Why I’ll never trust a Kennedy in any capacity.
Repealing The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (also known as the Hart–Celler Act) would make America great again.
So would repeal of the The National Voter Registration Act Of 1993 (NVRA) (aka the Motor Voter Law)
And the Patriot Act...
If not for that, them I would suggest working out a trade like in the MBA, in which liberal, socialist loving liberals could be traded to any country that they would go got, and would take them, in exchange for some honest industrious workers from their own country. Legally.
As well as program for US teens to go to a country like Guatemala (and out in the rural area) lean how to live without smart phones, video games, etc, and to work sunup to sundown, go to church, have "brothers and sisters" to lean to get along with and share things, versus being one of the spoiled children in 1 or 2 child families in the US and who will not work . for long.
What’s confusing to you?
I responded to your post saying ‘Then, like Europe, we got cocky and believed that we could ‘civilize’ people from ANYWHERE in the world’ when it’s obvious people have been discriminated against for centuries, in all countries, by people just like now. It’s just different countries.
Learn some history for goodness sakes.
America’s suffering an establishment-designed immigration crisis created to break the American citizenry down and conquer us. If the ballot box doesn’t work for us then what’s left? If we can’t do it at the ballot box then the solution will be bloody.
Whatever.
Bkmk.
How about a new topic?
In 2017 the Republicans held the White House, House of Representatives, and the Senate. What a perfect time to change the immigration laws!
The Immigration Act of 1924 with quotas by country based on the population of those groups in the US in 1880 was much better. The 1965 changes were a disaster.
Bttt.
5.56mm
The same president who is responsible for this last 100-120 million people or so, JFK, also is the first president to introduce “affirmative action”, it was an executive order of his in 1961.
We aren’t only being replaced, by law we must stand one step behind them in seeking work and promotions.
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