“If the Constitution is in fact not a suicide pact, why cannot a nation protect itself against perceived threats from a race or a creed by excluding them?”
I’ve long held that the 1965 immigration bill brought forth by Ted Kennedy may have been the single most destructive bill out of Congress in well over 50 years.
Teddy Kennedy was the author of a lot of destructive legislation. Much of it was associated with immigration (let's not forget McCain-Kennedy, the "amnesty" bill).
For some insane reason, Teddy thought we would be a better country if only there were more unassimilatable, uneducated and unskilled poor people -- who would vote Democrat, of course.