Nikki Haley’s 44th birthday is this week. You would think her a little old for fairytales. But a bizarre, little-reported remark the South Carolina governor made last week suggests that, age notwithstanding, Haley lives in Fantasyland, at least insofar as American history is concerned. The comment in question came the day after her Tuesday night…
national oranges act of 1924. signed by president calvin coolidge. that law used eugenics, a racist junk science, to justify and presume a cap of people who could to america from certain countries. those caps, or national origin quotas, were based on american demographic from the year 1890. in 1890, american immigrants were mostly western and northern european. and the chinese exclusion act suspending chinese immigration to the u.s., that was in effect. the 1924 law, the national origins act, was meant to suppress immigration from entire regions of the globe. and it expressly and intentionally part asian immigrants from the country, including japanese immigrants, who had not been blocked by previous u.s. immigration laws. so that was the law of the land for decades. right up until the moment president johnson signed that new law on liberty island. and johnson s new law was largely affective.
effect. the 1924 law, the national origins act, was meant to suppress immigration from entire regions of the globe. and it expressly and intentionally part asian immigrants from the country, including japanese immigrants, who had not been blocked by previous u.s. immigration laws. so that was the law of the land for decades. right up until the moment president johnson signed that new law on liberty island. and johnson s new law was largely affective. look at this graph issue for us from the migration policy institute. look at that purple block to see how small a share of the u. s. population the u.s. immigrant population and asian immigrants were in the 1960s. and then look at how that share expands after the 1960s, after president johnson ended the national origins quota system.