A Nation of Immigrants 0
In my local rag, local activist Don Tabor outlines the fundamental racism underlying our immigration laws and argues that, if they want to come, let them.
The quotas essentially excluded Africans and Asians from immigration and limited Hispanics and Eastern and Southern Europeans to the point that in the 1920s and ’30s, legal immigration added less than 0.01 percent a year and has held growth by legal immigration to under 0.5 percent ever since.
In 1965, the blatantly racist quotas were abandoned in favor of more subtly discriminatory “skills-based preferences,” which accomplish pretty much the same results under a veneer of merit.
The capsule description of Mr. Tabor describes him as a Libertarian.* That means I probably disagree with many of his positions.
On this one, though, he’s got it right.
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*Libertarian: a Republican who is ashamed to admit it.
