IsThatBrothaMouzone?
Veteran
The 1965 immigration act helped folks from outside of Europe the most.Godfrey pandering, as usual.
Jewish donors backed lobbies and politicians to reverse the mid 1920s Immigration restriction laws. In much the same way that Trump is using "them" "poisoning our blood" language 100 years later, those laws were put in place to keep Southern and Eastern European "others" from changing the white Western European Protestant fabric of America.
Those restrictions literally closed the door on people from countries that US lawmakers considered undesirables.
The donors backed new laws to open up immigration so that their cousins could flee the Eastern European countries they were in. So, 40 years after the restrictions were put in, new Immigration legislation was enacted.
And "chain migration" was encouraged, where relatives of American citizens were given priority to enter the country. Their transition would be easier, and they would assimilate quicker was the reasoning.
All of this has been on the public record for decades now. Its related to the CRM to the extent that some of the same donors backed both efforts. Non Black donors backed the CRM largely for self serving interests. That movement fought to remove legal restrictions to education, housing, and employment against people who werent White male Protestants. Those restrictions effectively blocked access and protections to the same southern and eastern euro origin "others" mentioned earlier.
Godfrey, and everybody who has studied/read about 20th century politics knows this.
Asians came in spurts and African immigration was almost non-existent before this.
Godfrey is 100% right.

