If memory serves me right, we can thank Teddy Kennedy for changing the immigration laws to let in just anyone. We have to be fair, don’t you know.
I’m watching TGO on C-Spam and he is marvelous as usual. And also, taping for posterity.
http://cis.org/1965ImmigrationAct-MassImmigration
Right you are it was teddy K,destroyed the country.
The unexpected result has been one of the greatest waves of immigration in the nation’s history — more than 18 million legal immigrants since the law’s passage, over triple the number admitted during the previous 30 years, as well as uncountable millions of illegal immigrants. And the new immigrants are more likely to stay (rather than return home after a time) than those who came around the turn of the century. Moreover, this new, enlarged immigration flow came from countries in Asia and Latin America which heretofore had sent few of their sons and daughters to the United States. And finally, although the average level of education of immigrants has increased somewhat over the past 30 years, the negative gap between their education and that of native-born Americans has increased significantly, creating a mismatch between newcomers and the needs of a modern, high-tech economy.
Mark is on C spam II just tuned in.