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No, dopey libruls, the USA did not always welcome immigrants.
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2018 Jun 4, 3:11pm 2,253 views 5 comments
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Automan Empire
2018 Jun 4, 7:19pm
Automan Empire
2018 Jun 4, 7:19pm
Why did you cherry pick a graph of immigration from Czecho-freaking-slovakia to support your point?
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MisterLefty
2018 Jun 4, 7:30pm
Automan Empire says
Why did you cherry pick a graph of immigration from Czecho-freaking-slovakia to support your point?I didn't look for any others. It is likely representative of similar data from Italy and other countries affected by the Johnson-Reed Act.
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Automan Empire
2018 Jun 5, 10:46am
Automan Empire
2018 Jun 5, 10:46am
MisterLefty says
We can stop right here. There is a REASON the graph for a relative bit player in immigration numbers was the specific one at hand when you started gathering text and graphics to post here.
Take note of the fact that your source(s) are biased and pushing some agenda, and that they "got" you this time. Distrust this source from now on, and watch for these elements of manipulation as you consume news in the future, BEFORE passing it on to others!
It is likely representative of similar data
We can stop right here. There is a REASON the graph for a relative bit player in immigration numbers was the specific one at hand when you started gathering text and graphics to post here.
Take note of the fact that your source(s) are biased and pushing some agenda, and that they "got" you this time. Distrust this source from now on, and watch for these elements of manipulation as you consume news in the future, BEFORE passing it on to others!
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MisdemeanorRebel
2018 Jun 5, 2:55pm
MisdemeanorRebel
2018 Jun 5, 2:55pm
Immigration was much lower today during the Golden Era 1940-1970. Companies had no choice but to improve productivity, train employees, and pay them well.
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MisterLefty
2018 Jun 5, 4:18pm
Time to dissect a troll.
Automan Empire says
Below is another graph of this data, this time regarding immigration from Eastern European country Hungary. Incidentally, Hungarian immigrants had been coming to this country for quite a while prior, and many Hungarian immigrants proudly served in the Union Army during the civil war. http://immigrationtounitedstates.org/560-hungarian-immigrants.html
Here is another reference describing the negative effects of the Reed-Johnson Act on the immigration of Czechslovaks. "The immigration laws of the 1920s that curtailed southern and east European immigration severely reduced the number of Slovaks who could enter the United States. Between 1929 and 1965 American quotas permitted only 2,874 persons from Czechoslovakia to immigrate annually to the United States." http://www.everyculture.com/multi/Pa-Sp/Slovak-Americans.html
But even if you reject the graphs and reject the data, you cannot dispute the history of restrictive immigration laws in the US, nor that much of the motivation centered around jobs for citizens, and not for lower wage worker immigrants.
Got any facts to backup your assertions?
Automan Empire says
Take note of the fact that your source(s) are biased and pushing some agenda, and that they "got" you this time. Distrust this source from now on, and watch for these elements of manipulation as you consume news in the future, BEFORE passing it on to others!I guess Putin has infiltrated Homeland Security. Please note the data published by the Office of Immigration Statistics, Homeland Security, on European immigration into the USA after the passage of the Reed-Jonhson Act, which sought to restrict immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe. Please see the precipitous crash of immigration to the USA after the act was passed. https://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/statistics/yearbook/2008/ois_yb_2008.pdf
Below is another graph of this data, this time regarding immigration from Eastern European country Hungary. Incidentally, Hungarian immigrants had been coming to this country for quite a while prior, and many Hungarian immigrants proudly served in the Union Army during the civil war. http://immigrationtounitedstates.org/560-hungarian-immigrants.html
Here is another reference describing the negative effects of the Reed-Johnson Act on the immigration of Czechslovaks. "The immigration laws of the 1920s that curtailed southern and east European immigration severely reduced the number of Slovaks who could enter the United States. Between 1929 and 1965 American quotas permitted only 2,874 persons from Czechoslovakia to immigrate annually to the United States." http://www.everyculture.com/multi/Pa-Sp/Slovak-Americans.html
But even if you reject the graphs and reject the data, you cannot dispute the history of restrictive immigration laws in the US, nor that much of the motivation centered around jobs for citizens, and not for lower wage worker immigrants.
Got any facts to backup your assertions?
Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 Restricted immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years.
The Page Act of 1875 (Sect. 141, 18 Stat. 477, 3 March 1875) was the first restrictive federal immigration law and prohibited the entry of immigrants considered "undesirable."[1] The law classified as "undesirable" any individual from Asia who was coming to America to be a forced laborer, any Asian woman who would engage in prostitution, and all people considered to be convicts in their own country.
The Immigration Act of 1924, or Johnson–Reed Act, including the National Origins Act, and Asian Exclusion Act (Pub.L. 68–139, 43 Stat. 153, enacted May 26, 1924), was a United States federal law that set quotas on the number of immigrants from certain countries while providing funding and an enforcement mechanism to carry out the longstanding (but hitherto unenforced) ban on other non-white immigrants. The law was primarily aimed at further decreasing immigration of Southern Europeans, countries with Roman Catholic majorities, Eastern Europeans, Arabs, and Jews.
The graph shows the effects of the Johnson-Reed Act on immigration from Czechoslovakia.