My father legally immigrated in 1957. From a non-English speaking country. In fact, he didn’t speak a word of English when he got here. I think Rush has his facts wrong.
Good for your dad, but the timeline is right. Johnson used his huge Democrat majorities in 1965 to re-target Immigration to Third World countries. Prior to that it was a relative trickle, since the 1920s.
Hopefully that happens again.
Rush did correct himself sometime later, said it was extremely curtailed and some years only few thousand. I could not find that archive.
But the immigration act of 1924 was in effect for decades. I believe we need something similar today.