Thursday, December 6, 2012

FrontPage Magazine - The 1965 Immigration Act: Anatomy of a Disaster

Born of liberal ideology, the 1965 bill abolished the national origins quota system that had regulated the ethnic composition of immigration in fair proportion to each group's existing presence in the population.  In a misguided application spirit of the civil rights era, the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations saw these ethnic quotas as an archaic form of chauvinism.

FrontPage Magazine - The 1965 Immigration Act: Anatomy of a Disaster

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