The 1965 Immigration Act: Anatomy of a Disaster: When will we value our national interest?

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | 12-10-02 | Ben Johnson

[Trailerpark Badass]

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[KC_for_Freedom]

Yup, this is where the problem started. Put in place a varying immigration quota based on prior year usage of the system. Later discovered that everyone in Mexico is a "cousin" of everyone else so that family immigration can be utilized. Finally created a need for Teddy to formally author legislation to permit a block of Irish to immigrate since the hispanics and asians had effectively cut them out of the immigration share.

This discussion of the 1965 immigration act is about legal immigration only and does not address the shameful "look the other way" approach to the army of border crashers each year.

[SJackson]

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[Reaganwuzthebest]

As bad as the 1965 "Immigration Act" was, Ted Kennedy's 1990 "Immigration Act" and signed by George Sr. was even worse. The bill raised legal quotas to nearly a million per year, established the diversity lottery which is responsible for the importing of terrorists from the Middle East, and started the H1-B program, the cause of the displacing of hundreds of thousands of native high tech workers over that of cheaper foreigners. All this while doing nothing to close the borders and stop illegal immigration.

Both of these bills have been disasters for the American people, it's obvious to most everyone. But will they ever be repealed? Not unless we stand up and make Congress do it.

[JMP]

...........Both of these bills have been disasters for the American people, it's obvious to most everyone. But will they ever be repealed? Not unless we stand up and make Congress do it..............
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When we elect either democrats or republicans we get uncontrolled immigration. And Lord knows that we are throwing our votes away if we dare consider a third party candidate. Just ask most people here. Just how do we make congress do anything that they don't want to do?

[Joe Hadenuf]

As bad as the 1965 "Immigration Act" was, Ted Kennedy's 1990 "Immigration Act" and signed by George Sr. was even worse. The bill raised legal quotas to nearly a million per year, established the diversity lottery which is responsible for the importing of terrorists from the Middle East, and started the H1-B program, the cause of the displacing of hundreds of thousands of native high tech workers over that of cheaper foreigners. All this while doing nothing to close the borders and stop illegal immigration.

[junta]

In the short term I'm a pessimist. It will take years of heavy pressure just to remove the airheaded utopians who view America as the "First Universal Nation" from their position of authority in the conservative movement. By then the Left will have the numbers to capture most of the seats of poltical power and all the GOP's talk of conservative immigrants will be proven false, leaving us in a bind.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

Just how do we make congress do anything that they don't want to do?

Granted it's not easy, both parties want mass immigration. The only thing I can think of is ratcheting up the pressure by protesting in the streets, in Washington, getting in their faces a little bit. That's all they understand anyway besides the dollar signs.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

George Sr.

After watching him last night, it was clear the ole boy still doesn't get it.

[Tailgunner Joe]

bttt

[MissAmericanPie]

I hope we have all learned our lesson. Never vote for a President from Texas. So far Texas is batting a big zero.

[Regulator]

Oh, he gets it alright. For him, NAFTA and the ethnic drowning of the U.S. is exactly what he wants. The Return To Serfdom.

[B4Ranch]

Can You Change America? Part 2

[Ohioan]

A better question would seem, "When will we respect our Nationality?" A nation is not a game of musical chairs. The immigration law that went into effect in 1965 deliberately ignored who Americans were as a people. That makes absolutely no sense.

One can befriend the world, but still understand that we are unique, as others are unique. Pretending that we are all the same is an insult to all of us. It demeans everyone on the planet, by denying everyone on the planet the characteristics that make each unique. One of those characteristics is one's race and ethnicity. There are other characteristics, of course, also. But many of those fit patterns that correlate with one's race and ethnicity. Why the compulsion to deny this reality?!

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site

[Joe Hadenuf]

I hope we have all learned our lesson. Never vote for a President from Texas. So far Texas is batting a big zero.

I am starting to agree. Lyndon Johnson Turned Viet Nam into a national disgrace killing a lot of our men in the process.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

Oh, he gets it alright. For him, NAFTA and the ethnic drowning of the U.S. is exactly what he wants.

Bush's one term was very productive then, because it was his policies that set all what's happening to us today in motion. He must very proud of his one world, globalist achievements.

He kept using the term last night "come together" (a song btw Lennon wrote to ridicule Ronald Reagan). What he should have been preaching was "Imagine".