I was only 3 years off.
Now, fun time is over, on to the depressing article in question...
Immigration Reform Act....yeah, LBJ...that pompous statist bastard! Reform my pattootie!
Lied to by lying bastards from the get-go!
In his opening remarks, chairman Edward Kennedy dismissed the critics:
What the bill will not do: First, our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually. Under the proposed bill, the present level of immigration remains substantially the same. . . . Secondly, the ethnic mix of this country will not be upset. . . . Contrary to the charges in some quarters, S. 500 will not inundate America with immigrants from any one country or area, or the most populated and economically deprived nations of Africa and Asia. . . . In the final analysis, the ethnic pattern of immigration under the proposed measure is not expected to change as sharply as the critics seem to think.
Kennedy did not merely say the critics were mistaken; he went on to discredit them as bigots—thereby establishing a pattern that the immigration debate has followed ever since. “The charges I have mentioned,” he said, “are highly emotional, irrational, and with little foundation in fact. They are out of line with the obligations of responsible citizenship. They breed hate of our heritage. . . .”(4)Oh, and what has changed in the intervening years? Well, for one, anybody arguing for a return to sane immigration policy is immediately labeled a bigot, so that's the same for the past 47 years. For another, America was lied to by a Kennedy, not the first or last time that has happened. Flash forward 47 years...same sh*t, same lies, same labelling as racist anybody arguing facts and sanity.
We lost the war 47 years ago...will a few more years reverse that outcome? Seriously? No, I don't think so either, we know we are enormously outnumbered and our so-called side riddled with traitors.