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Politics : Immigration and its Reform -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DallasKevin who wrote (48)	5/4/2013 7:42:28 PM
From: Steve Lokness	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 270

Everything I have told you and that you have argued I was wrong about are within that text you just posted! Let me paste from YOUR post the relevant points that you wrong about; <<<<<In 1917, the U.S. Congress enacted the first widely restrictive immigration law.>>>>> People being barred entry for various reasons. <<<<< In early 1921, the newly inaugurated President Warren Harding called Congress back to a special session to pass the law>>>>> That was the first quota law and was passed in 1921 - not 1924. <<<<< but the Chinese were already denied immigration visas under the Chinese Exclusion Act.>>>>> That was the 1882 law that came way before 1924. <<<<Congress>>>> and these were FEDERAL LAWs. You were clearly wrong on the four issues above. BUT the main point I was trying to make when I originally posted was that it was during WWI (and even before for many races - including Jews) - that there was a huge groundswell of anxiety towards foreign immigration. While 1924 marked the culmination in anti-imigration legislation it was a final act in a long process of deterring people from entering. It was a zenith in a 50 or so year long ordeal for coming into America. It was complicated for sure but it was anything but easy for those coming in - and impossible for many to come here. It was not easy and it was scary for them. Let me add one tidbit for you to chew on; During part of this early period of US immigration there was a generally accepted belief in eugenics. The belief that culminated in the thinking of Hitler. But waaaay before the atrocities of Hitler there was a time that eugenics was widely accepted in this country. Not universally , but "widely" accepted. So if you were of a race of people those people thought were less developed than others - you were looked down upon and marginalized. Forced to live within your own community and stick together. Not our best moment in history. But again the point being; it wasn't all that easy back then for lots of people.