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Had Kennedy's 1965 immigration act and the subsequent changes to policy not gone through, America would still be as White as a European country. Trump's current efforts are the start to undoing the legislative, cultural and demographic pretenses & consequences that have sunk America's American core.
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Had Kennedy's 1965 immigration act and the subsequent changes to policy not gone through, America would still be as White as a European country. Trump's current efforts are the start to undoing the legislative, cultural and demographic pretenses & consequences…
Immigration from non-Protestant and non-Northwest-European nations dramatically shifted the United States leftward, forced the population to grow beyond its natural means and directly caused the disasters faced between 1965 and the 2020s.

The lesson here is that migration matters, even of close kinds, and its effects will echo for generations. We cannot vacate the spaces of political power, neglect opportunities in law or collapse ourselves over the imperfect compromises. We are acting now and preparing for later.
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There is, again, talk of Trump allegedly planning amnesty. He's said explicitly that there is no offer of citizenship for migrant workers, and obviously the possible children of noncitizens are ineligible due to his birthright citizenship rule.

We should (reasonably, realistically, not hysterically) push back against suggestions that are too kind to foreigners. In this case, Trump's AGsec Rollins is proposing to make an 'expendable labour class' that business owners are responsible for, can lose at any time and must produce profit with.
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ICE director Lyons confirmed that work site operations are still active, for all industries. There is not an amnesty on the table; this proposal by Rollins attempts to address the difficulty that is cooperating with big businesses, who are quite influential, and transitioning us away from what has been 100 years of foreign-labour dependence.

Foreign labour comprises up to 70% of agriculture and over 30% of hospitality. Understandably, it is not a simple decision to just 'remove' the mass of a sector without having a way to wean it. That is the problem at hand, whatever solution is put forward has to end in their removal.
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Joseph Goebbels in 1942: "There are still 40,000 Jews in Berlin. It's exceedingly difficult to deport them...a large part of them are at work in the munitions industry..."
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An interesting historical anecdote. The NSDAP, which was far more aggressive and authoritative than the modern U.S. president can be, did not succeed in deporting all Jews, they had to make exceptions—because many Jews were needed 'in the labour pool'. Up to 40% in some areas stayed to work.
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Stephen Miller's presence over the administration, closeness to Trump, his legal dominance and multidepartment influence makes it improbable that there is any amnesty or bad decisions intended. That isn't to say we shouldn't push back, we need to speak out; we should monitor the situation with a realistic outlook nonetheless.
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'The amnesty thing [Reagan] really screwed up. . . . Because of what Reagan did, California is a supermajority blue state. . . . Even if you don't give people the right to vote, it really distorts congressional apportionment and the electoral college . . . You're destroying the voting power [of Americans]'.

VP JD Vance explaining why Amnesty is never a good idea.
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What is America, beyond a testament to the power and success of an idea when born from good men? America is a home, a home and heritage for the families of those men and their friends. It is the progeny of great nations before it, a nation itself that deserves to last. America is people and Nature; America is the empire of invention, a Republic for Americans.
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Happy Independence Day!
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JFK, author of the 1958 book 'A Nation of Immigrants', was the man who drafted the basis for the 1965 Immigration Act. Philip Hart, an Irish Catholic Senator & Civil Rights advocate, and Emmanuel Celler, a Jewish Senator that opposed the 1924 Immigration Restriction, introduced JFK's demographic-change idea into Congress.

His brother Ted Kennedy successfully pressured other Congressmen to vote Yes on Hart-Celler. Decades later, Ted Kennedy introduced the Immigration Act of 1990, the Act that created the H1B visa, family visas, E(mployment) visas, and TPS (Temporary Protected Status).

Their other brother Robert F. Kennedy was both a Senator and an Attorney General. R.F. Kennedy saved MLK Jr. from the law, coordinated the creation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and used his authority to send armed forces to force Whites to accept blacks in their schools. This is but one story of how one family of Catholic immigrants caused a century of deep destruction.
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The Kennedys were elected in large part because of the increasing Foreign presence in America. Before them was Al Smith, an Irish-Italian, the first Catholic nominee of any major party. Smith made his fame by waging war on the Klan, pushing for looser urban policies and uniting blacks, Catholics and liberal women under one bloc for the Democrat Party which still exists now.

Smith's bloc morphed into FDR's New Deal Coalition, then went on to carry mistakes like JFK, Obama & Biden into the White House. Catholics generally aligned with Jews to sway moderate Republicans, such as Reagan and the Bushes, to be weaker on immigration. This subversion occurs across the White countries, including Canada, England, New Zealand and 1920s Germany.
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It is not to encourage hate, we have to acknowledge these differences to understand what makes and breaks a nation. America was born overwhelmingly from and for one people, it has instead been claimed and clawed at by one hundred. If we are going to piece this place back together, let's learn how we got here.
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