"A Nation of Immigrants" was a 1964 pamphlet published by ADL under byline of late JFK. Nation of Immigrants retconning is largely an ethnocentric project to make ADL donors' ancestors' arrival seem central to American history. Confucius would have admired such ancestor worship.https://twitter.com/TheAmericanLib2/status/1018296643966271488 …
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And why did the ADL pick the then junior senator out of the other 95? Pure chance? Celler was also the man behind the 25th amendment-that's what happens when you're the chair of the relevant cttee-not that he want interested-just what happens.
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It was a TOTAL coincidence that Rep. Emanuel Celler happened to be at the right place at the right time to get 1965 immigration act thru Congress. Other than, of course, that he'd been working for more immigration since 1924 ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Celler …pic.twitter.com/vUcuQdJCkq
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Which passed 320-70 and 76-18. He must have been extremely persuasive.
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