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As I’ve been doing research on Edward Kennedy, I’ve discovered that he was one of the driving forces around the Immigration Act of 1965. What this act did was remove the racial quotas that privileged immigration from European countries over other (i.e. brown) countries.

It abolished the national origins system set up in the Immigration Act of 1924 and modified by the Immigration Act of 1952. While seeming to maintain the principle of numerical restriction, it so increased the categories of persons who could enter “without numerical limitation” as to make its putative numerical caps—170,000 annually for the Eastern Hemisphere with a maximum of 20,000 per nation plus 120,000 annually for the Western Hemisphere with no national limitations—virtually meaningless within a few years.

It was pretty difficult to find even this fairly simple explanation of the act on the internet–for some reason, there is website after website of nativist rhetoric explaining exactly how this legislation was one of the worst pieces of legislation ever created in all of history.

Whatever could the reason for these websites be? Read more…