First we need to repeal this.

[Mary Stetler]

Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 | US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives

On this date, in a ceremony at the base of the Statue of Liberty, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. Commonly known as the Hart–Celler Act after its two main sponsors—Senator Philip A. Hart of Michigan and Representative Emanuel Celler of New...

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President Johnson and Dems saw a use for 'wetbacks' and wanted more of them. Immigrants have always been useful, one way or another to those who passed laws for them. Whether as slave labor or for votes or whatever. It was not for humanitarian reasons. We wanted 'your tired and poor' to open the west and when they were attacked by Indians, it gave the military the right to go and slaughter them. Then wealthy people used them to build the railroads etc.

 

[Marie Mallory]

Mary, I see our history different. I see a men like Columbus, Lewis and Clark and other exployers discovering new lands sparsely inhabited by other people, like the Indians who dna says they came from Asia across the then frozen Eurasian Stepps to America.
Also, history tells us through archeology finds that there were Viking here before the Asian Indians.Finds like combs and mounds the Gaelic Anglos left behind.
Also, the term 'wetback' originated from the south Americans crossing the river to enter the nation.
That Statue was a gift from a Frenchman in 1886, an invitation to the other Europeans who were being abused by the Royals and others.
Settlers were being killed by the tribes who didn't agree with private property or fences.
It is a lot to go into but since I always liked history of the world both present and ancient I studied it.

 

[Marie Mallory]

The peoples of America [ according to my memory which is waning] history originated from the Bibical tribe of Dan who was a seafarer and went the way of the West when they left Israel. Who later settled in Europe and America.
Manassa and Ephram later known as the Danes I think.

 

[Marie Mallory]

I still don't understand why the Caucasian man is so disliked by history and present, yet his accomplishments, inventions and lands benefit the whole world.
All peoples and races have their good ways and bad ways.
I like my people, nation and heritage, warts and all.

 

[Don Alaska]

I think U.S. immigration was essentially frozen from the 1920s until action in the 1960s headlined by the aforementioned act. I actually think that U.S. wages were rising too quickly for many industrialists here, and they wanted to slow the growth by expanding the workforce. Republicans are often blamed for this, but the Democrats are the ones who wanted cheaper labor then. The Democratic party controlled the Unions at this point just as they controlled the South, and they somewhat betrayed those constituencies with this act and several others. Senator Edward (Ted) Kennedy was also behind opening the doors, and he carried a lot of weight, especially after the death of his brother, even though he was a relatively junior Senator.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 | US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives

On this date, in a ceremony at the base of the Statue of Liberty, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. Commonly known as the Hart–Celler Act after its two main sponsors—Senator Philip A. Hart of Michigan and Representative Emanuel Celler of New...

history.house.gov

President Johnson and Dems saw a use for 'wetbacks' and wanted more of them. Immigrants have always been useful, one way or another to those who passed laws for them. Whether as slave labor or for votes or whatever. It was not for humanitarian reasons. We wanted 'your tired and poor' to open the west and when they were attacked by Indians, it gave the military the right to go and slaughter them. Then wealthy people used them to build the railroads etc.

No, racism certainly is not humanitarian. But is more common than intelligence now days.