people came in. including a lot of central, eastern european jews. and that beautiful photographed by 1919. it speaks to the kind of thoughtfulness of the experience, back in 1872, grant had barges form southern states. rescinded by abraham lincoln. there s always been an american society, an undercurrent of antisemitism. it s everywhere in the world. and it s something we need to push back about. and morgan a cnn every generation. after the doors sort of swung shut, after 1920. there was a backlash. this is the replacement theory we re hearing now, first doubled up in the early decades of the 20th century. and the johnson read immigration act of 1924, it made miniscule quotas from countries that had a large jewish population. and an expanded quotas from the
visit policy throughout american history so chinese exclusion act of 1982 which referenced an invasion, immigration act of 1924 which restricted immigration from not by country. it s calling americans to carefully balance between immigration and border security. we are going to continue to talk about this conversation and unfortunately we don t have the political will at this time. it s so un-american because the reality is we tackle hard problems. americans, we are better than this. we tackle these problems yet we ve not done so for whatever number of reasons and it s something we as politicians need to be held accountable for if we are not doing our job. arthel: let me play sound from governor abbott who says local communities to the border like yours cannot handle migrant influx where big cities like new
common. that disdain for the other goes way back. it s even been chronicled in american literature. back in 1925, f. scott fitzgerald s classic novel the great gatsby was published. in it the antagonist tom buchanan does his own version of the great replacement theory bemoaning the migrants coming to replace real americans, so concerned he recommends his friends check out a book based on a real-life 1920s novel that warned immigration would alter the composition and destroy the country. civilization s going to pieces. i ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. have you read the rise of the colored empires by this man goddard. it s a fine book. the idea is if we don t look out the white race will be utterly submerged. it s all scientific stuff that s been proved. the great gatsby cam out a year after the immigration act of 1924 mandated quotas for less