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02/27/2008: "A brief history of American immigration law"

With its requirement for careful physical examination of all entrants and the establishment of quotas, McCarran-Walter remained national policy for many years. Its major provision stated that if 40 percent of the American people were of British origin, then 40 percent of the legal immigrants could be British. Similarly, if five percent of the population had come from Italy, then five percent of those granted immigration could be Italians. The purpose of this policy was simply to maintain the population blend that had built the nation.

Over time, McCarran-Walter faced numerous challenges and was amended in 1965 and 1976 to adjust the national-origin quotas. In 1980, Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) authored and saw enacted a major Refugee Act that undermined the McCarran-Walter approach by establishing an additional quota for refugees, with the term “refugee” broadly defined based on a 1967 United Nations protocol. The new law resulted in Fidel Castro releasing, and the United States accepting, hundreds of thousands of his undesirables who came to our country from the Cuban port of Mariel.

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on Wednesday, February 27th, Osama bin Laden said

Here is a piece by Kevin MacDonald. Click my name again.

on Wednesday, February 27th, Osama bin Laden said

Something you will not see discussed in the immigration debate: The Hart-Cellar act was sponsored almost entirely by the Jewish lobby who had the agenda of altering the ethnic composition of the United States away from northern europeans towards southern europeans, Jews, and non-whites. Click on my name for the article.