In Trump’s Immigration Remarks, Echoes of a Century-Old Racial Ranking
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In Trump’s Immigration Remarks, Echoes of a Century-Old Racial Ranking
The United States, the law’s supporters said, could now dispense with the "melting pot." The only new immigrants
who would be allowed to come would already look, act and speak like the Americans already here.
Senator David wrote that Each year’s immigration should so far as possible be a miniature America,
resembling in national origins the persons who are already settled in our country,
Mr. Trump, who made the remark while discussing potential immigration legislation with members of Congress at
the White House on Thursday, also asked, "Why do we want people from Haiti here?" "Take them out," he added.
Why would anyone want to leave Norway for the U.S.?" The more liberal immigration policies of 1965 still form the scaffolding of
the United States’ legal immigration system, ushering in — if unintentionally — an America that grows less white every year.
Under the framework established then, people already admitted to the United States can sponsor their relatives overseas through the process Mr. Trump calls "chain migration." Others now come for jobs, for study, as refugees or through the diversity visa lottery, a program put in place in 1990 and intended for nationalities
that are underrepresented in the normal immigration stream.
The United States, the law’s supporters said, could now dispense with the "melting pot." The only new immigrants
who would be allowed to come would already look, act and speak like the Americans already here.
Senator David wrote that Each year’s immigration should so far as possible be a miniature America,
resembling in national origins the persons who are already settled in our country,
Mr. Trump, who made the remark while discussing potential immigration legislation with members of Congress at
the White House on Thursday, also asked, "Why do we want people from Haiti here?" "Take them out," he added.
Why would anyone want to leave Norway for the U.S.?" The more liberal immigration policies of 1965 still form the scaffolding of
the United States’ legal immigration system, ushering in — if unintentionally — an America that grows less white every year.
Under the framework established then, people already admitted to the United States can sponsor their relatives overseas through the process Mr. Trump calls "chain migration." Others now come for jobs, for study, as refugees or through the diversity visa lottery, a program put in place in 1990 and intended for nationalities
that are underrepresented in the normal immigration stream.