Technically open, but relative few came because qualitative restrictions remained (literacy, health, public charge rules, border controls). Bracero program also
"It’s an interesting fact that Biden so completely excluded white Protestants, - - a quarter of the electorate, and even more that the fact was not reported.
The GOP is de facto the White Party; the Democrats are the party of POCs, Jews & homosexuals. What amounts to two nations are warring in the bosom of a single state. Hence the increasingly zero-sum nature of U.S. politics. One pole of the bipolar electorate might aspire to completely conquer the other—and/ or that it can’t afford to lose."
Interesting.
I seem to remember that Hart Cellar actually decreased Latin American immigration by a lot. Wasn't it wide open before then?
Technically open, but relative few came because qualitative restrictions remained (literacy, health, public charge rules, border controls). Bracero program also
relieved a lot of pressure.
"It’s an interesting fact that Biden so completely excluded white Protestants, - - a quarter of the electorate, and even more that the fact was not reported.
The GOP is de facto the White Party; the Democrats are the party of POCs, Jews & homosexuals. What amounts to two nations are warring in the bosom of a single state. Hence the increasingly zero-sum nature of U.S. politics. One pole of the bipolar electorate might aspire to completely conquer the other—and/ or that it can’t afford to lose."