you mean my grandparents who lived in a low-immigrant US before Ted Kennedy's 1965 immigration bill that was explicitly designed to tip the racial balance and create a population in favor of higher taxes and bigger government? I'd love to.https://twitter.com/russnelson/status/1033022158933569537 …
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We had a a huge wave of immigration from c. 1900 - 1920, then it slammed shut, then they (mostly Dems) wanted to open it up again in 1965. Between 1920 and 1965 we had limits: X from Sweden, Y from UK, Z from Germany etc. 1965 law mostly threw that out and replaced it with >
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a system that prioritized (a) skills, (b) family relationship to people already here Problem is, both were loose and floppy. "Skills" ended up meaning basically nothing (as compared to the very good Canadian system which defines it well). "Family" means little when >
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