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That is some very interesting and timely information to bring up. I wonder how much this information will be brought out into the open.
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FormerStudentIntern
on December 11, 2015 at 7:33 AM
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Nautikos
BI hope that Isis doesn’t sever teal any nukes from anywhere out of the blue. Ironically, Canada has the draft dodgers that escaped the U.S. during the Vietnam War. I’m afraid of my own shadow, so again Naut I won’t comment on the U.S. Republican candidate for the Republican nomination as a “moderate(?) “ here Donald Trump’s proposed idea of, banning all Muslims immigration to the U.S.BC-A, Bill’s R👀st
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BC-A
on December 10, 2015 at 4:03 PM
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Thank you , my friend......
Most Americans have little knowledge of the history of immigration in the US. The left today prefers to make everyone think that there are no restrictions on immigration, and never has been. They prefer to see America as a country with no borders and that is far from being the truth. If they only taught American History in public schools today...may the sheeples in America would understand the truth.
From http://immigrationtounitedstates.org
Immigration Act of 1917
Previous immigration laws, particularly those that governed immigration from Japan—Chinese were already barred, the result of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882—were largely restrictive solely on the basis of a "Gentlemen’s Agreement”: Since 1907, Japan had voluntarily restricted emigration of its citizens to the United States. The major concern of the Immigration Act of 1917 was the large influx of eastern Europeans, many of them illiterate, as well as "Asiatics”—the term used for Asians. In February, 1917, the act was passed over the veto of President Woodrow Wilson and became law. Provisions of the act included the exclusion of "undesirables” such as criminals, those deemed insane or "idiots,” and alcoholics. The most controversial portion of the act, creating an "Asiatic Barred Zone,” kept out immigrants from eastern Asia, particularly those from India. The Philippines were not included since the islands were an American possession, nor was Japan included.
Other provisions increased the "head tax” to eight dollars. Finally, a literacy test was imposed on future immigrants. Any persons over the age of sixteen would have to be literate. However, this particular provision was relatively loose in its restrictions. As long as a husband was literate, neither his wife nor other family members had to be literate as well. The literacy test proved to be of no more than minor significance. During the last year in which the act was law—July, 1920, to June, 1921—only some fourteen hundred immigrants were denied entry as a result of illiteracy, compared with more than one million who attempted to enter. Nevertheless, the act of 1917 represented the first broad attempt to restrict immigration into the United States.
The 1924 Law
Introduced by Congressman Albert Johnson in the House of Representatives and David Reed in the Senate, the Immigration Act of 1924 was intended to permanently restrict the immigration numbers from "undesirable” areas of the world— particularly from Russia and eastern Europe.
In addition to having fears about radicalism, congressional leaders were concerned about the large influx of workers willing to work for substandard wages; not surprisingly, among the supporters of the bill were the leaders of the growing unions among American workers. The fear of "cheap labor” was largely directed toward eastern Europeans. During World War I, large numbers of Latin American workers, particularly from Mexico, had entered the United States to supplement the labor force related to war industries or farming, especially in the sparsely populated Southwest. The importance of these workers was reflected in their exemption from the quota system as established by the act. In the years prior to implementation of the act, immigrants from Latin America represented approximately 30 percent of total immigration.
Changes in the demographics of the United States in the years between 1880 and 1920 played perhaps the most significant role in defining the language of the bill. The perception had been that the United States had been settled largely by western European stock, primarily Protestant, and nearly entirely white. Black people, freed fromslavery only in recent generations, and mostly uneducated and living in poverty, were either excluded or simply ignored in the argument.
By the 1920’s, nearly one-third of the American population consisted of immigrants and their families. The birthrate among this segment of the population suggested that the proportion of the population they represented would continue to increase. Moreover, intelligence tests administered to U.S. Army recruits during World War I were interpreted to mean that southern and eastern Europeans were of lesser intelligence than northern Europeans. The mythology of the superiority of the Nordics, or northern and western Europeans, was addressed in a popular book written by the American anthropologist Madison Grant, The Passing of the Great Race (1916). Grant argued that both physical and mental characteristics of eastern European immigrants were below the standards of the dominant Protestant stock. Unless restrictions were placed on this population—and a program of eugenics was considered as a portion of such control— both the quality of life and the characteristics of a Protestant-dominated society would suffer. Limits to immigration represented the clearest support for Grant’s arguments. The effect on Asian or African immigration was even greater. The 1924 act excluded Asians "and their descendants” as well as descendants of "slave immigrants.”
The greatest influx of immigrants from eastern Europe had occurred in the two to three decades prior to the start of World War I in 1914. Thus, the basis for the quota was changed from the U.S. Census of 1910 to that of 1890, when far fewer southern and eastern Europeans had resided in the United States. Furthermore, the quota was reduced from 3 percent to 2 percent of the number of foreign-born persons of each nationality resident in the United States in 1890. By 1929, the 2-percent quota was replaced by a total annual immigration cap of 150,000.
Other changes were meant to increase the monetary cost to potential immigrants, another means to restrict the poor. The head tax was increased to nine dollars. while requirements for both visas and photographs were implemented. The cost of the visa was nine dollars. This meant that families with several children might have to pay fifty dollars or more, on top of the cost of travel by ship, which might have been ten to twenty dollars per passenger. The significance of the visa was not only at the port of entry. In this manner, consulates at the country of origin also had a mechanism to regulate who was permitted to immigrate to the United States. Since members of the consulate determined which applicants could obtain visas, they exercised significant discretion as to who would be acceptable. In theory, only "desirables” would be issued such visas.
the system as established by the act of 1924 remained largely in place until 1952. Family members of U.S. citizens were not included in quota numbers, while women were not afforded equal status until the changes of 1952.
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There was a wide variety of exclusions for decades....so adding controls on immigration is as American as Apple Pie...............
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on December 10, 2015 at 10:45 AM
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