WaPo has a long piece on the centennial since passage of the Johnson Reed Act of 1924, repealed in 1965 by Hart-Cellar, which is arguably the most significant shaper of our current politics. I'll let Eduardo Porter explain: Smith continued, speaking of America not 40 years after the Statue of Liberty was erected in New York harbor, with its open arms for all humankind. Immigration, Smith noted, should be shaped “to assimilate and perfect that splendid type of manhood that has made America the foremost Nation in her progress and in her power.” It is for the preservation of that splendid stock that has characterized us that I would make this not an asylum for the oppressed of all countries,” In 1924, the Johnson-Reed Act completed the project, reshaping the nation’s identity over the next four decades. It set an overall ceiling of 165,000 immigrants per year, about 20 percent of the average before World War I, carefully allotting quotas for preferred bloodstreams. Japanese people were completely excluded, as were Chinese people. Elsewhere, the act established national quotas equivalent to 2 percent of citizens from each country recorded in the 1890 U.S. census. Germans received 51,227 slots; Greeks just 100. Nearly 160,000 Italians had entered the United States every year in the first two decades of the century. Their quota was set at less than 4,000. In the 1960s, when the foreign-born share was dropping to about 5 percent of the population, however, other considerations became more important. In 1965, the quotas established four decades earlier were finally disowned. That didn’t quite work out as planned. Migrants allowed in under Hart-Celler have ushered in an America that looks very different from the one Johnson addressed. Half of the foreign born today come from Latin America; about 3 in 10 from Asia. Fewer than 6 in 10 Americans today are White and not of Hispanic origin, down from nearly 9 in 10 in 1965. Hispanics account for about one-fifth of the population. African Americans make up nearly 14 percent; Asian Americans just over 6 percent. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...m=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_ideas I recommend the movie Cabrini to all for some perspective. In any event, we had pandemics in 1918 and then in 2019. IF DT gets elected, we will have a racial purification regime in 2025, 101 years after the last. So look for a stock market crash and great(er) depression starting in 2030, the fantasy date for Opus Dei types for a new "Regional States of North America" displacing the US, brought about by a "relatively bloodless" civil war. May be ahead of schedule on that one 2030: Looking Backwards We finally received as a gift from God what had been missing from our ecclesial experience these 250 years in North America–a strong persecution that was a true purification for our "sick society." The tens of thousands of martyrs and confessors for the Faith in North America were indeed the "seed of the Church" as they were in pre-Edict of Milan Christianity. The final short and relatively bloodless conflict produced our Regional States of North America. The outcome was by no means an ideal solution but it does allow Christians to live in states that recognize the natural law and divine Revelation, the right of free practice of religion, and laws on marriage, family, and life that reflect the primacy of our Faith. With time and the reality of the ever-decreasing population of the states that worship at the altar of "the culture of death," perhaps we will be able to reunite and fulfill the Founding Fathers of the old United States dream to be "a shining city on a hill."
There were some very, very racist immigration laws passed during the 1920s. Glad you flagged this one.
LOL, lets all bend the knee to non existant supernatural entities. Makes perfect sense. Build 300,000 buildings to these "beings". Donate a good portion of the national wealth to these same "beings". Dismiss science, education, and secularism. We can all sing kumbaya, hold hands, and pray our way through every human contingency. God will provide.............until he does not. yep these christians are so giving. The Vatican is happy to melt some gold down for the poor and downtrodden. Or go ask Joel Osteen for shelter in Houston during a big storm. But wait - prosperity evangelicals don't care much for the poor carpenters of the world in a hurricane now do they? Rome? The vatican?? You mean where the pedo's go for shelter?? The culture of DEATH is Christianity, pure and simple.
I’m neither disputing nor criticizing your point; I’m just not sure what it is. It’s one of my weaknesses.
Is your hatred of Christianity so strong that you have to look for places to dump it in? Your post neglects the benefits that Christianity and Christians have brought to society over the centuries, not the least of which is the foundation for most of the western values we hold dear.
Didn’t the Johnson Reed act also create the border control and consular systems? Even bad laws have some foresight sometimes.
I'm responsible for that by my bringing in Opus Dei which popped into my mind after reading Harrison Buckner's speech, which is plainly guided by that, seeing Samuel Alito hang the flag upside down, again heavily influenced, and then seen the date of 2030 and remembering how much they've written about that date. I included one link. Your point is well taken about the fact that focusing on that manifestation of those who called themselves Christian would overlook all the good done. Irrefutable point. But if you're looking at those like Alito and Buckner, and Opus Dei and they're protesting counterparts, I would share the loathing. Of course, I don't see them as Divinely influenced. Maybe supernaturally influenced, from their Father of Lies
