Whom am I tar and feathering, pray tell.
Posted on 06/05/2005 8:19:23 AM PDT by austinite
The United States Immigration Act of 1924, also known as the National Origins Act or the Johnson-Reed Act, limited the number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of person from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890 according to the census of 1890. It superseded the 1921 Emergency Quota Act. The law was aimed at further restricting the Southern and Eastern Europeans who had begun to enter the country in large numbers beginning in the 1890s, as well as East Asians and Asian Indians, who were prohibited from immigrating entirely. It set no limits on immigration from Latin America.
As an example of its effect, in the ten years following 1900 about 200,000 Italians immigrated every year. With the imposition of the 1924 quota, only 4,000 per year were allowed. At the same time, the annual quota for Germany was over 57,000. 86% of the 165,000 permitted entries were from the British Isles, France, Germany, and other Northern European countries.
The quotas remained in place with minor alterations until the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.
Your thread?
LOL
Yeah and think about the people were returned to Europe who were gassed by the nazis.
Ok, what do you actually think (not feel) about the immigration act of 1924?
I disagree with it.
Nope.
What?! You're not ready to tar and feather the poster of this thread as a scumbag racist? But he wants to limit immigration, and as everyone knows, that means he's a racist! /libral racebaiter
Let's get rid of our borders entirely! If some immigration is good, then LOTS of immigration will be GREAT! Why are we spending so much money to border security anyway? Let's just LEGALIZE illegal immigration and tax it! End the War on Immigration!
If he acts like a scumbag racist, I'll tar and feather him.
If he (or anyone) does, that's what they ought to get.
I never said that. I am anti-illegal immigration and for the Minutemen border patrols. That doesn't mean I want to go back to racial/ethnically motivated immigration limits such as what was going on back then.
What about mean homophobes? Can we tar and feather them too?
Boy, you got that right.
What's a homophobe? Kind of a leftist buzzword for around here, don't you think?
Sexists too. Sexists, homophobes, racist confederate flag waving Republicans and the American Taliban should all be tarred and feathered.
Whom am I tar and feathering, pray tell.
You're a nut if you believe that. What's your problem today?
Since/If they're appears to be no way to limit immigration without being a racist, then let's sop it altogether. Seal the borders now.
sop = stop
Sealing the borders is unrealistic as a long term solution. I am not against do it for a year or even six months to get our act together. before that, there should be a heavy crackdown on illegal immigration.
And anybody who's mean to animals. Beastiophobic reactionaries are ruining the planet! Meat is murder! Save the Earth!
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