Here's a simple statement of historical fact which every American should know:
US immigration policy has always favored white northern European immigrants, but visa quotas were *explicitly* determined by eugenics & "race science" from 1921-1965.
That's it. That's the fact.
US immigration policy has always favored white northern European immigrants, but visa quotas were *explicitly* determined by eugenics & "race science" from 1921-1965.
That's it. That's the fact.
You can't know this fact to be true and honestly deny that an immigration system which only stopped relying on eugenics 15 yrs before I was born is fundamentally and irredeemably founded in white supremacy.
You just can't.
You just can't.
And no, since I know you're about to ask: it's not much better since the birth of the modern US immigration system in 1965.
The racial preferences and open displays of white supremacy are not only still baked in, but one of the few things both parties can still agree on.
The racial preferences and open displays of white supremacy are not only still baked in, but one of the few things both parties can still agree on.
Liberal champion Ted Kennedy fought to pass the 1965 INA knowing full that it would absolutely without question create untold #s of undocumented Mexicans within a few yrs.
He then later amended it in a desperate effort to keep white northern Europeans immigrating.
He then later amended it in a desperate effort to keep white northern Europeans immigrating.
Trump has to go, but let's not convince ourselves that somehow all we need to do to scrub white supremacy from our immigration system is to elect Democrats. They've never--ever--been good on immigration, we'll never get anywhere better until we confront and own this history.
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