This op-ed is a must read. Most people don’t know that undocumented immigration from Latin America is mostly a historical accident of the Hart-Celler Act in 1965. It set Western Hemispheric quotas at like <10% of where levels of immigrant flows had been in preceding decades.
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So... we sowed the seeds for our current predicament with our 19th century racist immigration laws.
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