The Briefing Room
General Category => Immigration/Border => Topic started by: rangerrebew on April 16, 2017, 05:16:41 pm
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Opposing immigration wasn’t always racist
By Peter Skerry April 16, 2017
T oday, the battle lines over immigration policy are sharply defined. In the last two years, Donald Trump’s rise has drawn attention to the Republican Party’s lurch toward the right. Opposition to current levels of immigration, illegal and otherwise, has taken on a tone that is stridently populist, even reactionary.
Meanwhile on the left, big-city mayors and blue-state legislatures are declaring sanctuaries for undocumented residents. Democrats have criticized not just Trump’s limitations on refugees, travelers from Muslim countries, and H-1B visas, but also his stepped-up enforcement of existing immigration laws. While liberals and progressives have stopped short of endorsing open borders, they’ve come to treat opposition to illegal immigration and constraints on illegal immigration as unacceptable, even racist.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2017/04/15/opposing-immigration-wasn-always-racist/ZToPxnulS41s95cP53PdHM/story.html
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Of course it wasn't.
Up until the 1960's, it was the official policy of The United States to admit immigrants largely on the basis of race/ethnicity/origin -- as in whites/Euros.
It had been this way for decades upon decades.
Only recently are we told -- harangued is more like it -- that it's "racist" to promulgate policies that maintain the "character" of the previous generations.
Nonsense.
Anyone who would believe that… is a fool.