Bull, one of JFK’s (and the left’s) big goals was to replace Americans with non-Protestant foreigners. He even wrote a book on it in 1958, it helped drive the Catholic vote for him.
“However, if there is one man who can take the most credit for the 1965 act, it is John F. Kennedy. Kennedy seems to have inherited the resentment his father Joseph felt as an outsider in Boston’s WASP aristocracy. He voted against the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, and supported various refugee acts throughout the 1950s. In 1958 he wrote a book, A Nation of Immigrants, which attacked the quota system as illogical and without purpose, and the book served as Kennedy’s blueprint for immigration reform after he became president in 1960. In the summer of 1963, Kennedy sent Congress a proposal calling for the elimination of the national origins quota system. He wanted immigrants admitted on the basis of family reunification and needed skills, without regard to national origin. After his assassination in November, his brother Robert took up the cause of immigration reform, calling it JFK’s legacy. In the forward to a revised edition of A Nation of Immigrants, issued in 1964 to gain support for the new law, he wrote, “I know of no cause which President Kennedy championed more warmly than the improvement of our immigration policies.” Sold as a memorial to JFK, there was very little opposition to what became known as the Immigration Act of 1965.”
Not a big issue sixty years ago. The immigrants he was thinking about were displaces refugees, many of them from countries taken over by the Communists. For one thing, the suppression of the Hungarian revolution had made the country much more open to changing the immigration laws. Hardly a left-wing initiative. As for Mexico, the Eisenhower administrative had worked out the bracero plan. In any case, looking back, I contend that the biggest reason for the immigration problem we have now is what I call the ZPG mentality which ended the baby-boom and has so greatly reduced the Euro-American population in this country.