I remain astounded that folks actually seem to buy into the concept that our nation was some third-world wanna be back around 1990, when this immigration free-for-all was initiated.
Our trade and immigration policies that saw this nation progress to one second to none, have been gutted for what seems to me to have been no appearant reason other than greed to be persued on the backs of our fellow men.
The U.S. immigration policies prior to 1964 were based on merit. There was a careful screening process. Immigrants had to find jobs and were assigned a sponsor in the U.S. to shepherd them along the process to citizenship. That policy attracted the best and brightest immigrants to our country. Those immigrants were indeed an asset. The picture changed when the merit system was dumped. Edward "Swimmer" Kennedy pushed through the changes that eliminated the merit system and opened the door to uncontrolled immigration from 3rd world countries. Read the details of the Hart-Celler Act
here. Kennedy "promised" that the changes wouldn't cause our cities to be overrun with foreign immigrants. As usual, Kennedy was lying. That's what he always does.