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Comment by profdevloper

13 hours ago

Before Hart-Cellar we had national origin quotas, it wasn't a free-for-all.

For those outside the Americas, yes. Western hemisphere immigration had no meaningful restrictions until 1965.

  • We had little meaningful immigration pressure from the america at the time. The foreign born population dropped from 15% in 1921 to under 5% by 1970.

    • We’re backing away from:

      > The U.S. had a draconian restrictive immigration policy from 1921-1965.

      to “well ok not really but it didn’t matter”?

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