“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.
Ridiculous. Europeans were violently discriminated against much earlier than 1965.