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The 1924 Immigration Laws,which pretty much slowed immigration from eastern and southern Europe really helped this country. It allowed those who came in the mass wave a chance to assimilate. Most of these people(Italians,eastern Europeans,Greeks)were not of the same caliber as earlier entrants,from Great Britain,Scandanavia,Germany. They needed to be Americanized,and thanks to a hault this was allowed to happen. We need a similar law today. The immigrants now from the third world are from an even lower grade.
That was before we became a dependent welfare state.
We still allowed people to come in between 1924-65. It was just in much more manageable numbers. After WW2,many people from eastern Europe were allowed to come as refugees. I would also like to clarify something. By lower caliber,when referring to immigrants from eastern and southern Europe,I meant less educated and skilled. Not as individuals. Now,I do stand by saying that the third world people are of a lower grade.
Also, there were no limits on immigration from countries in Latin America and the Caribbean in the 1924 law. There was no illegal immigration problem from those countries because anyone from those countries who could pay a small fee could come legally. The Border Patrol was originally set up not because of Mexicans coming over illegally from Mexico but because of Chinese fleeing Mexico due to discrimination and coming to the US.
Sigh how much longer will Jews hold the country hostage over the Holocaust? Jews now have a refuge it's called Israel, Americans helped set it up and spend a lot of money protecting it.
Ugh, you and your ignorance disgust me.
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Israel doesn't have open borders and doesn't recognize refugees from Muslims from other land. I'm not sure why America has to allow in refugees from Chechnya and backward countries like the Central African Republic.
The 1924 Immigration Laws,which pretty much slowed immigration from eastern and southern Europe really helped this country. It allowed those who came in the mass wave a chance to assimilate. Most of these people(Italians,eastern Europeans,Greeks)were not of the same caliber as earlier entrants,from Great Britain,Scandanavia,Germany. They needed to be Americanized,and thanks to a hault this was allowed to happen. We need a similar law today. The immigrants now from the third world are from an even lower grade.
So, you actually expect people to condone common sense here?
The immigration laws you speak of were part of the National Origins Act, which is precisely why the U.S. became enriched as such a wonderful country. It was LBJ who destroyed the act, implying people from the Third World should be given a chance, despite their lack of ability to adapt.
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The 1924 immigration also directly contributed to the death toll in the Holocaust because as a result of the ridged quota system we turned away thousands of Jews and sent them to certain death. The 1924 law was basically a highly racist law in how it dealt with Asians, in particular Chinese, and it also had clear anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic undertones. It was designed to keep America a white protestant country. I would not be in favor of bring it back or passing any similar law.
No, Adolf Hitler directly contributed to the death of those in WWII Germany, not the U.S. Also, this immigration law was not tied in with disallowing a ship with Jews from porting, it was separate. The U.S. does not have a responsibility to anyone except its own citizens. Foreigners should have no say in our immigration laws.
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The 1924 immigration also directly contributed to the death toll in the Holocaust because as a result of the ridged quota system we turned away thousands of Jews and sent them to certain death. The 1924 law was basically a highly racist law in how it dealt with Asians, in particular Chinese, and it also had clear anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic undertones. It was designed to keep America a white protestant country. I would not be in favor of bring it back or passing any similar law.
To answer your question, the US has never been an all white country. It couldn't preserve something that's never existed in the first place.
The '24 law's passage had a lot to do with bigotry
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