How Rep. Emanuel Celler's 1965 Immigration bill changed America.

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https://m.jpost.com/american-politics/rep-emanuel-celler-an-unsung-hero-588614

Representative Emanuel Celler (D-NY, 1888-1981) was the longest-serving Congressman from New York (1924-1965).

During his first term in the House, Celler was present when Congress completed legislating the highly restrictive “national origins” system limiting immigration to the United States to under 400,000 a year based on country of origin.

The goal of the legislation was to keep America an Anglo-Saxon country.

Celler spent the next 40 years seeking to overturn the Johnson Acts and finally did so in 1965 as a co-sponsor of the Hart-Celler Act.

 

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https://www.history.com/news/immigration-act-1965-changes

But the act—also known as the Hart-Celler Act after its sponsors, Sen. Philip Hart (D-Mich.) and Rep. Emanuel Celler (D-N.Y.)—put an end to long-standing national-origin quotas that favored those from northern and western Europe and led to a significant immigration demographic shift in America.

Since the act was passed, according to the Pew Research Center, immigrants living in America have more than quadrupled, now accounting for nearly 14 percent of the population.

In 1960, Pew notes, 84 percent of U.S. immigrants were born in Europe or Canada; 6 percent were from Mexico, 3.8 percent were from South and East Asia, 3.5 percent were from Latin America and 2.7 percent were from other parts of the world.

In 2017, European and Canadian immigrants totaled 13.2 percent, while Mexicans totaled 25.3 percent, other Latin Americans totaled 25.1 percent, Asians totaled 27.4 percent and other populations totaled 9 percent.

 

[Invisible Man]

Or, another way to look at the same history: How the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 changed America.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Emanuel Celler

Berg, Witz, Celler, Stein...

 

[Anti Federalist]

During debate on the Senate floor, Senator Ted Kennedy, speaking of the effects of the Act, said, "our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually. ... Secondly, the ethnic mix of this country will not be upset.

Lying, traitorous scumbag.

 

[PAF]

Lying, traitorous scumbag.

Keep voting politicians who enjoy redistributing your money. If not for the MIC, then for the Pharm Complex which transferred wealth to the upper 1%. If not for the Pharm Complex, then for Section 8 housing. If not for Section 8 housing, then for NGO's who help line the pockets of government contractors. If not for NGO's, then for Nationalized "other stuff".

At least after something more is implemented, at the federal level, you'll have something else to gripe about the next election cycle. And then we can go on to say: but X is better than Y, and get out the vote again!

 

[Swordsmyth]

It flooded the country with incompatible foreign communists, the very problem that advances in travel technology and lax immigration controls had caused prior to the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924, that's why it was passed.
The Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 didn't go far enough.

America will not be fixed until all the unamericans have been removed from our society, even if their roots go back beyond the Revolution, we didn't expel enough Tories.

 

[acptulsa]

America will not be fixed until all the unamericans have been removed from our society, even if their roots go back beyond the Revolution, we didn't expel enough Tories.

You seem to just want to throw everyone out but yourself.

 

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https://web.archive.org/web/20180414003308/https://www.wsj.com/articles/jewish-organizations-had-a-role-in-1965-act-1523374146

 

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