@fredom why do you care so much if immigration is curtailed? We literally did it already and the country turned into a superpower and etc.
I'm a silly believer in principals of Liberal Democracy. You just keep repeating that second line. Doesn't make it #facts
I keep posting it because it's a fact. More information below on it and feel free to run it through Grok yourself.Both annual immigration inflows and the foreign-born population (in absolute numbers after the early 1930s, and as a share of the total population throughout) declined substantially from the 1920s through the 1960s.
The Immigration Act of 1924 (Johnson-Reed Act), building on the 1921 Emergency Quota Act, imposed strict national-origins quotas that sharply limited immigration, especially from Southern and Eastern Europe and Asia (Western Hemisphere countries were largely exempt until later). Combined with the Great Depression and World War II, this produced a long period of low inflows.
Key patterns in legal immigration (permanent residents/admissions, approximate decade totals from historical INS/Census-linked data):
- Pre-restriction peaks: ~8.8 million (1901–1910) and ~5.7 million (1911–1920).
- 1921–1930: ~4.1 million (still elevated early in the decade, then falling after 1924; annual figures dropped from hundreds of thousands to under 300,000 by the late 1920s).
- 1931–1940: ~0.5 million (very low, often under 100,000 per year).
- 1941–1950: ~1.0–1.1 million.
- 1951–1960: ~2.5 million.
- 1961–1970: ~3.3 million (beginning to rise, especially after the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act abolished national-origins quotas).
Inflows remained far below early-20th-century levels until the post-1965 era.Foreign-born population (U.S. Census data):
The absolute number rose slightly into 1930 (from residual earlier immigration) then fell steadily as deaths among an aging immigrant cohort outpaced low new arrivals. The percentage declined continuously from the 1920s through 1970.
This “immigration pause” (roughly 1924–1965) is a well-documented historical feature. Numbers and shares began rising again after the 1965 Act shifted policy toward family reunification and skills, with larger inflows from Latin America and Asia.
You're still struggling with this one. You keep pointing to immigration data and superpower status but aren't offering any evidence of causation or even correlation.
Disney started making cartoons in 1923, just as we (apparently) entered superpower status. You do the math.
PS Notice how our our industrial base has suffered since the rise of anime?
Oh....so you're just a typical lib. When presented with data you don't like you obfuscate and become disingenuous. Thats disappointing.
I never said the reason for it happening was just because we cut back in immigration. I have continually said we cut back on immigration (which is a fact) and still became a superpower with the largest economy (which is also a fact). The point is we didn't need mass immigration to accomplish it. Now say something silly instead of changing your incorrect narrative you have.
son, i have a Dole-Kemp sticker on a tool box...somewhere.
Do you even know who Jack French Kemp was? We almost had a 7-time AFL allstar QB as a vice president. We lost the big game by 220 electoral votes that year (it was tighter than it looked!) but Jack played great. I also like to think i did my part. Please don't diminish my contribution.
https://twitter.com/cosmorxn/status/2090664804251824171?s=46&t=Csl_r88muvNMBV79b5VS-Q
Diversity is our strength @arthur-dent
https://twitter.com/cosmorxn/status/2090664804251824171?s=46&t=Csl_r88muvNMBV79b5VS-Q
Diversity is our strength @arthur-dent
People in wheelchairs waiting at an airport have exactly what to do with US diversity?
But for fun, go to Google and search "MAGA arrested pedophelia." But for some reason that is the only group you have zero worries about? Indiana in wheelchairs though get you ready to light torches, grab pitchforks, and march.
https://twitter.com/cosmorxn/status/2090664804251824171?s=46&t=Csl_r88muvNMBV79b5VS-Q
Diversity is our strength @arthur-dent
People in wheelchairs waiting at an airport have exactly what to do with US diversity?
But for fun, go to Google and search "MAGA arrested pedophelia." But for some reason that is the only group you have zero worries about? Indiana in wheelchairs though get you ready to light torches, grab pitchforks, and march.
Scammers. Disproportionally. You look at skin color & scream racist!, I see cultures that diminish everything great about this country while adding little to nothing.
https://twitter.com/danburmawy/status/2090933797957116170?s=46&t=Csl_r88muvNMBV79b5VS-Q
@oneeyedundertaker you look at individuals and see groups. Do the "maga pedophile" search and tell me if that gives one the right to tar all maga with that? The answer is no. People are individuals. You want to reduce us to groups. @co-hoosier used to rail against that, conspicuously absent here.
I have no idea if those people are scammers. There is 100% no doubt Trump is a scammer. Who did you vote to be president? Should he be impeached for being a scammer? If not, even if the wheelchair people are scammers, what complaint do you have against scammers?
@oneeyedundertaker you look at individuals and see groups. Do the "maga pedophile" search and tell me if that gives one the right to tar all maga with that? The answer is no. People are individuals. You want to reduce us to groups. @co-hoosier used to rail against that, conspicuously absent here.
I have no idea if those people are scammers. There is 100% no doubt Trump is a scammer. Who did you vote to be president? Should he be impeached for being a scammer? If not, even if the wheelchair people are scammers, what complaint do you have against scammers?
If we import 10% of Somalia and 10 years later 75% of them are on welfare, do we continue to import Somalians or can we be reasonable and stop importing Somalians?
https://twitter.com/chrisbrunet/status/2092843460474679533?s=46
https://twitter.com/fentasyl/status/2092817474534195362?s=46
Not surprising, but third world slave labor doesn't make a developed nation better off economically.
SC, you started this thread by in part stating the following...
I use to be pro immigration, but have realized over the past 10 years it's a bad idea as more and more people like him come here and vote for more radicalized ideologies. Mamdami being the most obvious example (And with the rise of all the anti-white sh#%).
Rather than starting a discussion about immigration by taking an individual case and implying all immigrants resemble this person, shouldn't we ask ourselves whether or not as a country immigrants can be beneficial to our future. Also, what kind of immigrants do we want?
IMO, we need an immigration system to help offset our aging population and sustain essential industries such as healthcare, technology, and agriculture.
Unfortunately, the immigrants who most want to come here (Mexicans, Central and South America) who arrive at our Southwest border or those from a country such as Somalia may not be the ideal candidates to sustain essential industries. This doesn't mean, however, there aren't immigrants around the globe who along with their families would not be ideal candidates to fill our needs.
An interesting deportation.
Far-right British provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported after his immigration arrest in US