Immigration Follies
Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2023 8:25 am
Douglas Mercer
July 4 2022
A grand irony of history is that the 1924 Immigration Act kept out Poles, Italians, and other Southern Europeans. Fifty years later these people would be called "White." At the same time it placed no quotas on the Western Hemisphere, ie, mestizo and blacks.
Be careful what you wish for.
We kept out Whites and let in Mexicans.
Any more victories like that and we're done for.
Of course the Jews were bundled up with the Poles so it would have been difficult to make the distinction.
In 1924 no one was going to say "no Jews."
The 1790 Naturalization Act said "Whites only." This "White" included Jews. America was thus ahead of Europe in granting civil rights to Jews.
The grand ironies of history indeed.
After the passage of the 1924 Immigration Act Madison Grant exulted that we had finally got rid of our Jews. He could not have been more wrong. Between 1924 and 1945 300,000 Jews were admitted to the United States, and tens of thousands more came illegally.
In 1932 Madison Grant said we should secure our southern border. People looked at him like he had three eyes.
In fact he had two good ones.
***
The litany of immigration follies is long and legion. Like so many nails in the coffin. The tawdry tale is the slow erosion of White America due to Jewish influence, perceived foreign policy needs, and the greed of business.
Syrians were deemed to be non-White by American courts in 1913 and 1914 but were deemed by those same courts to be White in 1909, 1910, and 1915.
Despite legal fiat Syrians are not White.
Filipinos are not White but American Courts deemed them White for purposes of immigration and naturalization. Why did they do this? Why, because we defeated Spain in a War and thus took over the Philippines and thus had "duties" of Empire.
I thought we "won" that war.
An American Court ruled Mexicans to be White in 1897 in the Rodriguez case which gave Mexicans the right to immigrate and naturalize. The judge wrote that "if the strictest scientific classification of the anthropologist were adopted Rodriguez would not be classified as white."
No shit.
Which is why the strictest scientific classification of the races must be used at all times.
Keep it white.
The Rodriguez case was botched because of considerations of "bilateral relations" and due to the fine print in the 1848 Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the 1853 Gadsen Treaty with Mexico.
I thought we won that war?
God help us from such victories.
Over time the post Civil War Negro Amendments also extended the eligibility to immigrate and naturalize to "aliens of African nativity and to person of African descent."
In San Franciso they promulgated the Queue Ordinance which forced Chinese Immigrants to cut their hair on arrival. In 1879 the Ho Ah Kow (no, really that's the real name) case invalidated the Queue Ordinance by saying "hostile and discriminating legislation by a state or city against any class, sect, creed, or nation in whatever form is forbidden by the 14th Amendment."
Who says?
In 1898 the Wong Kim Ark case of the United States Supreme Court ruled that aliens born on American soil are Citizens of the United States by virtue of that birth regardless of their race. That's the story they tell at any rate.
On May 26, 1880, the supervisors of San Francisco passed Ordinance 156, saying persons could not operate a laundry in a wooden building without a permit from the board. In the Yick Wo case the Supreme Court struck down this ordinance.
In his 1906 State Of The Union Address President Theodore Roosevelt denounced San Francisco's segregation of Japanese, and called for a bill that would allow the Japanese to immigrate and naturalize.
In 1926 congressman John Box of Texas introduced a bill that would create a hemispheric quota system on all of Latin America. He said that "the influx of Mexicans created the most insidious mixture of White, Indian, and negro blood ever introduced into the Americas." Railroad, Cattle, and Agricultural interests opposed these quotas. Congressman John Garner of Texas also opposed these quotas by saying "the Mexican does not cause any trouble unless he is Americanized." In 1930 a bill providing for quotas on Latin America passed the Senate 56 to 11 but died in the House when Herbert Hoover said he would veto it.
A golden opportunity gone.
When Roosevelt came in to office he inaugurated red the so called "Good Neighbor" policy toward Latin America which meant that he bent over backward not to offend the sensibilities of leaders from the region, which meant that they had an "open door" policy when it came to them immigrating to Ameria and being naturalized. This continued the policy of the earlier Secretary Of State Kellog who said "if we have quotas for Latin America there will be adverse affects." Roosvelt himself said "if we want to hold them we have to treat them differently from the rest of the world."
In 1935 a restrictionist organization called The California Joint Immigration Committee recruited National Service Examiner John Murff and New York Federal District Judge John Knight to ignore the Rodriguez case in a ruling for the case of Timoteo Andrade, declaring him not White. Roosevelt was afraid to appeal Andrade for fear he might lose and set the "wrong" precedent, so by means of Administrative Procedure by fiat he declared Mexicans to be White. He also ordered the United States Immigration Service and the State Department to treat Mexicans as White as well.
In the 1920s the Senate pass an anti-black immigration law but it died in the house when the NAACP lobbied against it, and when it was argued that this might deny re-entry to American blacks who were traveling abroad, and that it would hamper Christian Missionary activity in Africa.
With the advent of World War 2 the ban on Asian immigration began to crumble. In 1942 a U.S. Foreign Service specialist called for the end on the ban on Asians, and during the war Madame Chang Kai-Shek traveled in America and called for the same thing. Among the elite it was seen to be unseemly that we were counting on China for help in the war and then not allowing them to immigrate. In 1943 Roosevelt called for the end on the ban on Asians, and pro-business lobbies with an eye on 400 million consumers joined him. Finally in 1943 the Magnuson Act was passed which allowed Asians to immigrate to America for the first time since 1882.
Forget about "Who Lost China?"
Who lost America?
During the war nearly every Latin American country sided with the allies, and Mexico sent workers to America to replace the men fighting in the war. This was seen to give Latin American countries enormous moral leverage over America in terms of immigration, and they used it to lobby against the unequal treatment of people of color in the Panama Canal Zone and for unrestricted immigration rights.
In their propaganda in the 1950s the Soviet Union highlighted the "racist" nature of America's immigration policy which caused our foreign policy establishment much consternation.
Secretary Of State Dean Acheson wrote Truman that "our failure to removed racial barriers in our immigration policy" was giving the Kremlin unlimited opportunities for propaganda.
In 1947 Truman commissioned a report called To Secure These Rights which recommended removing all racial restriction in immigration.
When Congress overrode his veto of a restrictionist bill Truman said that Jesus Christ agreed with him.
In 1952 Truman commissioned another report called Whom Shall We Welcome? which is widely viewed as being a blueprint for the 1965 Immigration And Nationality Act. The document called for the ending of all racial provision in American immigration law.
In 1953 the former head of the American Bar Association, Frank Holman, testified in congress on behalf of stopping all racial screening for prospective immigrants.
In the 1950s advocates of restriction stopped talking abut race and started talking about culture.
During the Korean War and the Vietnam War it was often said that "it doesn't make sense" that we were fighting on behalf of the Koreans and the Vietnamese and then turning around and not letting them freely immigrate to America.
Finally in 1965 the door which has been battered and broken opened and Lyndon Johnson signed the Death Warrant for America.
Since that time all hell has been breaking loose.
***
The lesson of course is don't be swayed by soft-hearted appeals to race equality, don't acquire an Empire which will rely on the goodwill of other countries, and do your own work always. That's the only way to keep it White. These historical developments in the overthrow of White America were nothing short of the March Of Folly, and it was a forced march where the White race was frog-marched to its ultimate demise.
July 4 2022
A grand irony of history is that the 1924 Immigration Act kept out Poles, Italians, and other Southern Europeans. Fifty years later these people would be called "White." At the same time it placed no quotas on the Western Hemisphere, ie, mestizo and blacks.
Be careful what you wish for.
We kept out Whites and let in Mexicans.
Any more victories like that and we're done for.
Of course the Jews were bundled up with the Poles so it would have been difficult to make the distinction.
In 1924 no one was going to say "no Jews."
The 1790 Naturalization Act said "Whites only." This "White" included Jews. America was thus ahead of Europe in granting civil rights to Jews.
The grand ironies of history indeed.
After the passage of the 1924 Immigration Act Madison Grant exulted that we had finally got rid of our Jews. He could not have been more wrong. Between 1924 and 1945 300,000 Jews were admitted to the United States, and tens of thousands more came illegally.
In 1932 Madison Grant said we should secure our southern border. People looked at him like he had three eyes.
In fact he had two good ones.
***
The litany of immigration follies is long and legion. Like so many nails in the coffin. The tawdry tale is the slow erosion of White America due to Jewish influence, perceived foreign policy needs, and the greed of business.
Syrians were deemed to be non-White by American courts in 1913 and 1914 but were deemed by those same courts to be White in 1909, 1910, and 1915.
Despite legal fiat Syrians are not White.
Filipinos are not White but American Courts deemed them White for purposes of immigration and naturalization. Why did they do this? Why, because we defeated Spain in a War and thus took over the Philippines and thus had "duties" of Empire.
I thought we "won" that war.
An American Court ruled Mexicans to be White in 1897 in the Rodriguez case which gave Mexicans the right to immigrate and naturalize. The judge wrote that "if the strictest scientific classification of the anthropologist were adopted Rodriguez would not be classified as white."
No shit.
Which is why the strictest scientific classification of the races must be used at all times.
Keep it white.
The Rodriguez case was botched because of considerations of "bilateral relations" and due to the fine print in the 1848 Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the 1853 Gadsen Treaty with Mexico.
I thought we won that war?
God help us from such victories.
Over time the post Civil War Negro Amendments also extended the eligibility to immigrate and naturalize to "aliens of African nativity and to person of African descent."
In San Franciso they promulgated the Queue Ordinance which forced Chinese Immigrants to cut their hair on arrival. In 1879 the Ho Ah Kow (no, really that's the real name) case invalidated the Queue Ordinance by saying "hostile and discriminating legislation by a state or city against any class, sect, creed, or nation in whatever form is forbidden by the 14th Amendment."
Who says?
In 1898 the Wong Kim Ark case of the United States Supreme Court ruled that aliens born on American soil are Citizens of the United States by virtue of that birth regardless of their race. That's the story they tell at any rate.
On May 26, 1880, the supervisors of San Francisco passed Ordinance 156, saying persons could not operate a laundry in a wooden building without a permit from the board. In the Yick Wo case the Supreme Court struck down this ordinance.
In his 1906 State Of The Union Address President Theodore Roosevelt denounced San Francisco's segregation of Japanese, and called for a bill that would allow the Japanese to immigrate and naturalize.
In 1926 congressman John Box of Texas introduced a bill that would create a hemispheric quota system on all of Latin America. He said that "the influx of Mexicans created the most insidious mixture of White, Indian, and negro blood ever introduced into the Americas." Railroad, Cattle, and Agricultural interests opposed these quotas. Congressman John Garner of Texas also opposed these quotas by saying "the Mexican does not cause any trouble unless he is Americanized." In 1930 a bill providing for quotas on Latin America passed the Senate 56 to 11 but died in the House when Herbert Hoover said he would veto it.
A golden opportunity gone.
When Roosevelt came in to office he inaugurated red the so called "Good Neighbor" policy toward Latin America which meant that he bent over backward not to offend the sensibilities of leaders from the region, which meant that they had an "open door" policy when it came to them immigrating to Ameria and being naturalized. This continued the policy of the earlier Secretary Of State Kellog who said "if we have quotas for Latin America there will be adverse affects." Roosvelt himself said "if we want to hold them we have to treat them differently from the rest of the world."
In 1935 a restrictionist organization called The California Joint Immigration Committee recruited National Service Examiner John Murff and New York Federal District Judge John Knight to ignore the Rodriguez case in a ruling for the case of Timoteo Andrade, declaring him not White. Roosevelt was afraid to appeal Andrade for fear he might lose and set the "wrong" precedent, so by means of Administrative Procedure by fiat he declared Mexicans to be White. He also ordered the United States Immigration Service and the State Department to treat Mexicans as White as well.
In the 1920s the Senate pass an anti-black immigration law but it died in the house when the NAACP lobbied against it, and when it was argued that this might deny re-entry to American blacks who were traveling abroad, and that it would hamper Christian Missionary activity in Africa.
With the advent of World War 2 the ban on Asian immigration began to crumble. In 1942 a U.S. Foreign Service specialist called for the end on the ban on Asians, and during the war Madame Chang Kai-Shek traveled in America and called for the same thing. Among the elite it was seen to be unseemly that we were counting on China for help in the war and then not allowing them to immigrate. In 1943 Roosevelt called for the end on the ban on Asians, and pro-business lobbies with an eye on 400 million consumers joined him. Finally in 1943 the Magnuson Act was passed which allowed Asians to immigrate to America for the first time since 1882.
Forget about "Who Lost China?"
Who lost America?
During the war nearly every Latin American country sided with the allies, and Mexico sent workers to America to replace the men fighting in the war. This was seen to give Latin American countries enormous moral leverage over America in terms of immigration, and they used it to lobby against the unequal treatment of people of color in the Panama Canal Zone and for unrestricted immigration rights.
In their propaganda in the 1950s the Soviet Union highlighted the "racist" nature of America's immigration policy which caused our foreign policy establishment much consternation.
Secretary Of State Dean Acheson wrote Truman that "our failure to removed racial barriers in our immigration policy" was giving the Kremlin unlimited opportunities for propaganda.
In 1947 Truman commissioned a report called To Secure These Rights which recommended removing all racial restriction in immigration.
When Congress overrode his veto of a restrictionist bill Truman said that Jesus Christ agreed with him.
In 1952 Truman commissioned another report called Whom Shall We Welcome? which is widely viewed as being a blueprint for the 1965 Immigration And Nationality Act. The document called for the ending of all racial provision in American immigration law.
In 1953 the former head of the American Bar Association, Frank Holman, testified in congress on behalf of stopping all racial screening for prospective immigrants.
In the 1950s advocates of restriction stopped talking abut race and started talking about culture.
During the Korean War and the Vietnam War it was often said that "it doesn't make sense" that we were fighting on behalf of the Koreans and the Vietnamese and then turning around and not letting them freely immigrate to America.
Finally in 1965 the door which has been battered and broken opened and Lyndon Johnson signed the Death Warrant for America.
Since that time all hell has been breaking loose.
***
The lesson of course is don't be swayed by soft-hearted appeals to race equality, don't acquire an Empire which will rely on the goodwill of other countries, and do your own work always. That's the only way to keep it White. These historical developments in the overthrow of White America were nothing short of the March Of Folly, and it was a forced march where the White race was frog-marched to its ultimate demise.
