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Ted Kennedy’s 1965 Immigration Act: The War On America Turns 50

Ann Coulter

September 30, 2015

Half a century ago, Democrats looked at the country and realized they were never going to convince Americans to agree with them. But they noticed that people in most other countries of the world already agreed with them. The solution was obvious.

So in 1965 -- 50 years ago this week -- Sen. Ted Kennedy passed an immigration law that has brought 59 million foreigners to our shores, who happen to vote 8-2 for the Democrats.

Democrats haven't won any arguments; they changed the voters. If anything, the Democrats have stopped bothering to appeal to Americans. The new feminized Democratic Party says, That's too bad about those steelworkers in Ohio losing their jobs, but THERE'S A WOMAN AT A LAW FIRM IN NEW YORK CITY WHO DESERVES TO MAKE PARTNER!

Republicans should be sweeping the country, but they aren't, because of Kennedy's immigration law. Without post-1965 immigrants bloc-voting for the Democrats, Obama never would have been elected president, and Romney would have won a bigger landslide against him in 2012 than Reagan did against Carter in 1980.

This isn't a guess; it's a provable fact. Obama beat Romney by less than 5 million votes in a presidential election in which about 125 million votes were cast. More than 30 million of Obama's votes came from people who arrived under Teddy Kennedy's immigration law; fewer than 10 million of Romney's did.

The 1965 act brought in the poorest of the poor from around the globe. Non-English-speaking peasants from wildly backward cultures could be counted on to be dependent on government assistance for generations to come.

Kennedy and other Democrats swore up and down that the new immigration law would not change the country's demographics, but post-1965-act immigrants are nothing like the people who already lived here.

As Pew Research cheerfully reports, previous immigrants were "almost entirely" European. But since Kennedy's immigration act, a majority of immigrants have been from Latin America. One-quarter are from Asia. Only 12 percent of post-1965-act immigrants have been from Europe -- and they're probably Muslims.


Apparently, the "American experiment" is actually some kind of sociological trial in which we see if people who have no history of Western government can run a constitutional republic.

As of 1970, there were only 9 million Hispanics in the entire country, according to the Pew Research Center. Today, there are well more than 60 million.

We've already taken in one-quarter of the entire population of Mexico
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, most of whom seem to live in Los Angeles. For the last decade, nearly half of all felons sent to California's prisons have been Hispanic, according to the Department of Corrections.

In 1970, there were only a few thousand Haitians in America. Today, there are nearly a million. Miami beaches and New York parks are suddenly littered with goat heads from Haitian voodoo rituals.

In 1970, there were virtually no Somalis in the United States. In the past 25 years alone, we've brought in more than 80,000 Somali refugees -- and more than half of those since 9/11. Recent headlines out of Minnesota: "Minnesota ISIS terror suspect pleads guilty to conspiracy," "February trial date set for Minnesota ISIS terror suspects," "The Twin Cities have an ISIS problem."

(Possible new GOP slogan: "We'll cut your taxes, as long as these voodoo priests and refugees approve it.")

In 1960, there were about 200,000 Muslims in the U.S., according to a study in the International Journal of Environmental Science and Development. Today, the U.S. census estimates that there are more than 6 million Muslims here. Muslims are expected to surpass Jews as the second-largest religion in America in about two decades.

No country has ever simply turned itself into another country like this.

With the media cheering the end of America and businessmen determined to keep importing cheap labor, Democrats don't even bother hiding what they're doing.

Democratic political strategists Ruy Teixeira and John Judis have been gloating for 20 years about how post-1965 immigration would soon produce a country where Republicans could not win an election, anywhere. Then Democrats could do whatever they want. They called the new emerging majority "George McGovern's Revenge."

In today's America, George McGovern would be a moderate Democrat; Jimmy Carter would be a two-term president; and we'd be holding primary debates at the Walter Mondale Presidential Museum and Library.

Any GOP candidate for president who wants to increase immigration -- i.e., all of them except Trump -- ought to be required to first pass this simple test: Be successfully elected governor of California on a platform of tax cuts and social conservatism.

The Democrats got the voters -- and the country got 9/11, Fort Hood, the Boston Marathon bombing, clitorectomies, an explosion of gang rapes, child rapes, sex tourism, slavery, voodoo, Russell Brand, billions of taxpayer dollars stolen in Medicare and Medicaid scams, an epidemic of heroin deaths, soccer, bankrupt school districts and hospitals, overcrowded prisons, and endless tax hikes to pay for all the immigrant services, as small town after small town goes all-Mexican, or all-Somali or all-Hmong.

The people coming in aren't the ones exulting about "the browning of America." It's smug liberals who want America to be humbled and destroyed. The cultural left is overjoyed at the remaking of our society into one that is poorer, browner and less free.

These changes are entirely the result of government policies that were never debated, much less put to a vote. Americans have not been consulted on the question of whether to turn our country into some other country. Never mind what we're doing. You'll thank us later.

I know it's gauche to consider what Americans want, but how about the immigrants? Presumably some didn't come only for the welfare, crime and terrorism opportunities. They decided to move to the United States -- not Mexico or Somalia or China -- because they wanted to live in America. If our current immigration policies aren't stopped, they're going to wonder why they bothered.

 

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Lol....Ann coulter. She needs to see a doctor......this woman is a mental case and has been for years. She fools the Willies of the world into buy her books and cashes in while laughing at their stupidity.

Democrats got voters and the country got child rape? Catholic priests and Sandusky immigrants?
 

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Articles like these are especially appropriate in wake of another senseless Muslim terror attack inside the United States.

All of the knee-jerk "solutions" I'm reading are worthless after the horse has already left the barn. Or, rather, after Democrats flung the door wide open and let the farm animals inside the house!
 

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Articles like these are especially appropriate in wake of another senseless Muslim terror attack inside the United States.

All of the knee-jerk "solutions" I'm reading are worthless after the horse has already left the barn. Or, rather, after Democrats flung the door wide open and let the farm animals inside the house!

Except that this guy was born here and his parents( according to superbeets) came here in 1987 while Reagan was president. But I'm sure it's Ted Kennedys fault face)(*^%
 

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Except that this guy was born here and his parents( according to superbeets) came here in 1987 while Reagan was president. But I'm sure it's Ted Kennedys fault face)(*^%

Doc, I realize your game is always partisan mud flinging but Reagan and all subsequent presidents and legislators, are not responsible for the Immigration Act of 1965.
 

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Doc, I realize your game is always partisan mud flinging but Reagan and all subsequent presidents and legislators, are not responsible for the Immigration Act of 1965.

Somehow you whackjobs always manage to blame every problem in history on dems......even though huge disasters happen while republicans control things.

Everybody realizes you wee duped into thinking I'm doc mercer. Even the other loons are shaking their heads at you.

"I'm an investigator":):)
 

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Articles like these are especially appropriate in wake of another senseless Muslim terror attack inside the United States.

All of the knee-jerk "solutions" I'm reading are worthless after the horse has already left the barn. Or, rather, after Democrats flung the door wide open and let the farm animals inside the house!
Keep in mind Joe that the liberal way is to condemn the messenger and not the message. You see either they don’t agree with the message or more likely they don’t understand it.


Either way it’s easier to brand someone any number of derogatory names, pat themselves on the back and then go on vacation to Virginal beach.
 

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If America has a thirst for cheap labor and short-term GDP growth that offsets the worry about schools and hospitals being overcrowded or assimilation issues, then what can you really do?

Nobody in either political party is calling for stricter population control. Even Trump, who is the most ardent immigration reformer, doesn't really seem to have any problem with more legal immigration in the form of cheap labor.
 

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If America has a thirst for cheap labor and short-term GDP growth that offsets the worry about schools and hospitals being overcrowded or assimilation issues, then what can you really do?

Nobody in either political party is calling for stricter population control. Even Trump, who is the most ardent immigration reformer, doesn't really seem to have any problem with more legal immigration in the form of cheap labor.
And I don’t either as long as it’s done the way my grandparents did it. Legally.
 

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And I don’t either as long as it’s done the way my grandparents did it. Legally.

But many of the issues that illegal immigration creates or is said to create don't go away if it were legal. They just don't unless your reducing the growth in immigration or scrutinizing who gets to come to America more.

Given the supply/demand for labor wouldn't change based on those laws, would they matter?
 

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If America has a thirst for cheap labor and short-term GDP growth that offsets the worry about schools and hospitals being overcrowded or assimilation issues, then what can you really do?

Nobody in either political party is calling for stricter population control. Even Trump, who is the most ardent immigration reformer, doesn't really seem to have any problem with more legal immigration in the form of cheap labor.

Bah, cheap labor...

If left wing immigration policies weren't producing an increase in Democrat voters they would be halted immediately. You can be sure of that.

Back in the 1960s, "Corporate America" wasn't lobbying for these malicious culture-destroying immigration laws. Ditto for the Civil Rights Act, which essentially forced private businesses to bend to the federal government's employment standards. Today, those same liberty-violating laws are being abused to shove the tranny agenda down everyone's throat.

Cultural groups mingled together are like chemical elements that won't bond. In times of crisis, they will seek their own and compete against others. As Ann Coulter noted, as America became more 'browner', it also became less freer, but talk like that will get you labeled a "racist."

Bottom line: allowing people into your country who don't share your values is cultural suicide.

Donald Trump is the "last gasp" for people who have woken to reality but it's too late now - liberal immigration has fundamentally transformed America and permanently ghettoized former prosperous cities and regions. There is no way back.

America is totally polarized and balkanized, and you can thank left wing "multiculturalism" for that.
 

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The economy wasn't as globally competitive in the 50's and 60's as it is now. Quarterly profits weren't really scrutinized the same way they are now. Cheap labor is absolutely a reason that we've had such robust immigration from 3rd world countries over the last 40-50 years. These people aren't striving for the same standard of living as natives and thus are a big cost saver.

I agree that the fire was started for political purposes but there is a reason that there hasn't been more backlash from a political party and most of it is confined to citizens (until Trump came along and blew all of that up, finding an excellent wedge issue where other politicians just didn't think to look because they were completely out of touch. That is where Trump's strong EQ comes into play.)

When people get $8 an hour nannys, landscapers and maids they probably aren't too worried about the neighborhoods these people are taking over and what social or societal stress that is causing others.

KASICH: I'm for sealing the border, I'm for a guest worker program. People can come in, work, and go back home. We haven't closed the border because special interests, I believe, blocked it. We have 11 and a half million people here. If they have not committed a crime since they've been here, make them pay a fine & back taxes, and give them a path to legalization, never to citizenship. It is not going to happen that we're going to run around and try to drag 11 and a half million people out of their homes.


You think he is just talking out of his ass about special interests blocking immigration reform?
 

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But many of the issues that illegal immigration creates or is said to create don't go away if it were legal. They just don't unless your reducing the growth in immigration or scrutinizing who gets to come to America more.

Given the supply/demand for labor wouldn't change based on those laws, would they matter?
I’d answer your question but I think Joe did it pretty well.


I don’t have a hell of a lot more to add.
 

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I’d answer your question but I think Joe did it pretty well.


I don’t have a hell of a lot more to add.

Your viewpoint is in opposition to his, no? He thinks immigration from 3rd world and banana republic countries sucks because of all the societal damage it does. I am pretty sure he is in no way advocating for "legal channels" for the many of the immigrants that have come over, just that they don't come at all.

Why would immigration from Mexico or South America be any better if it were legal? It would help in terms of criminals and drug smuggling perhaps (debatable) but it wouldn't change labor dynamics, resource usage or cultural assimilation issues.
 

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The economy wasn't as globally competitive in the 50's and 60's as it is now. Quarterly profits weren't really scrutinized the same way they are now. Cheap labor is absolutely a reason that we've had such robust immigration from 3rd world countries over the last 40-50 years. These people aren't striving for the same standard of living as natives and thus are a big cost saver.

I agree that the fire was started for political purposes but there is a reason that there hasn't been more backlash from a political party and most of it is confined to citizens (until Trump came along and blew all of that up, finding an excellent wedge issue where other politicians just didn't think to look because they were completely out of touch. That is where Trump's strong EQ comes into play.)

When people get $8 an hour nannys, landscapers and maids they probably aren't too worried about the neighborhoods these people are taking over and what social or societal stress that is causing others.

KASICH: I'm for sealing the border, I'm for a guest worker program. People can come in, work, and go back home. We haven't closed the border because special interests, I believe, blocked it. We have 11 and a half million people here. If they have not committed a crime since they've been here, make them pay a fine & back taxes, and give them a path to legalization, never to citizenship. It is not going to happen that we're going to run around and try to drag 11 and a half million people out of their homes.

You think he is just talking out of his ass about special interests blocking immigration reform?

Guest worker program? Practically, see how well that has worked in Europe? Once they enter your country, they put down roots and settle, apply for govt benefits - which our political class promised were designed to be the last resort rather than the first - and before you know it, the headlines in your country begin looking like the headlines in their countries.

No amount of cute political sloganeering can change reality:

Allowing people into your country who don't share your values is national suicide.


There is no "free market" counter-argument for not having borders AND strict immigration standards. There is no "free market" counter-argument for opening the door to people who don't believe in the free market principles and individual liberty, and who vote accordingly (and whose children vote accordingly).

As to why there hasn't been a bigger political backlash against this insane cultural suicide, it's called political correctness. Multiculturalism is cultural Marxism. Anyone who voices their concerns against this delusional left wing Utopia is branded a 'racist' and 'bigot' - until it's too late.

Where were the Donald Trumps decades ago? Marginalized and ostracized by the political class and punditry driven by self-serving domestic and foreign political interests which don't have America's best interests at heart.
 

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Oh I wasn't agreeing with Kasich. That was just the quote I found of a notable politician citing special interests as a reason the border isn't secure and illegal immigration goes unchecked. Something you seem to want to solely attribute to a political party wanting votes. Fact of the matter is a lot of people like all the benefits that come from cheap labor. Hence a big reason why it exists.

Whether it is from Mexico or Europe or the moon doesn't really matter to me, but I think we should harness the leverage we have from being a prosperous nation and be far more selective in who we allow into the country.

You do agree that "I'm fine with them coming as long as it is legal." is the type of thing you only want to say if you want to lose this battle, right? Because Democrats or special interests or whoever can make that pivot easily.
 

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Your viewpoint is in opposition to his, no? He thinks immigration from 3rd world and banana republic countries sucks because of all the societal damage it does. I am pretty sure he is in no way advocating for "legal channels" for the many of the immigrants that have come over, just that they don't come at all.

Why would immigration from Mexico or South America be any better if it were legal? It would help in terms of criminals and drug smuggling perhaps (debatable) but it wouldn't change labor dynamics, resource usage or cultural assimilation issues.
No, I’m pretty much in agreement.


Well for 1 we would have a record of who they are and I’m fairly sure we could weed out the undesirables, no?


2nd we seem to think it’s our responsibility to care for them. I know for a fact that my grandparents received nothing but freedom and a chance for a better life when they came over on a boat.


3rd assimilation is a must. Get a job, start a business, pay taxes and when you’ve proven you’re worthy, then and only then do you get the privilege of becoming an American citizen.


And last we need to set limits, we can’t absorb the worlds population. We’re already broke, living on borrowed money, although there are some who don’t believe it.
 

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Oh I wasn't agreeing with Kasich. That was just the quote I found of a notable politician citing special interests as a reason the border isn't secure and illegal immigration goes unchecked. Something you seem to want to solely attribute to a political party wanting votes. Fact of the matter is a lot of people like all the benefits that come from cheap labor. Hence a big reason why it exists.

Whether it is from Mexico or Europe or the moon doesn't really matter to me, but I think we should harness the leverage we have from being a prosperous nation and be far more selective in who we allow into the country.

You do agree that "I'm fine with them coming as long as it is legal." is the type of thing you only want to say if you want to lose this battle, right? Because Democrats or special interests or whoever can make that pivot easily.

Hold on...

If "cheap labor" is the driving-force behind illegal peasants flooding the country without any significant backlash, doesn't the blame lie squarely on the anti-market forces (GOVERNMENT!) that have priced the production of certain goods and services right out of the market?

That said, I'm not sure I buy the argument economics is the driving force behind this invasion, it is mostly cultural and political as I outlined previously. Same rabid leftist nonsense destroying Europe as we know it.
 

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