notion that it couldn t happen, that they could not elect a catholic president of the united states. if you know our political history for the decades preceding that with al smith and others there was evidence that , you cannot elect a catholic, and that was all transcended and exploded one night in november 1960. and so the world we were looking at in 1968 when i could really finally pay attention was a world coming apart in the united states. the vietnam war is raging, we had an incumbent president lyndon johnson who had been elected four years ago in a landslide who was on the way to an easy reelection again. he was very likely to be facing some of very good at losing presidential elections. richard nixon, who had the distinction in history at the beginning of 1968, of being the very first vice president in history to lose a presidential campaign. he then made hubert humphrey the second 1968. as the year began, it was back in that ancient america where if someone said, i d
by emma lazarus that says give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free as the embodiment of the way we think about this country and immigration. as you look across the history of this nation, does it track with the reality of how we have treated immigrants? dr. kraut: the history of immigration in the u.s. doesn t track at all with emma lazarus s wonderful quotation. it has been a love-hate relationship. in the 19th century, there was a popular immigrant saying, america beckons but americans repel. in many ways that much more how ourly embodies relationship with immigration has been in the united states. one of the great ironies is that emma lazarus wrote the poem in 1883, and one year before, in 1882, the u.s. passed the chinese exclusion law, excluding chinese laborers from coming to the united states. we would pass in the years after that increasingly restrictive legislation. so we want immigrants to come. we beckon them with opportunity.
track with the reality of how we have treated immigrants? dr. kraut: the history of immigration in the u.s. doesn t track at all with emma lazarus s wonderful quotation. it has been a love-hate relationship. in the 19th century, there was a popular immigrant saying, america beckons but americans repel. that is more accurate as to how our relationship with immigration has been in the united states. a great irony is that emma lazarus wrote the poem in 1883, and one year before, in 1882, the u.s. passed the chinese exclusion law, excluding chinese laborers from coming to the u.s. in the years after that, increasingly restrictive legislation was passed. we want immigrants to calm, we beckon them with opportunity to take jobs as skilled, semiskilled, unskilled labor to build our country, construct our economy, but after they get here, frequently they are the object of scorn, they are discriminated against, they suffer some of the worst acts of prejudice imaginable. this is a ver
kraut, you have spent your professional career as an historian studying u.s. immigration. many americans look to the statue of liberty s famous poem by emma lazarus that says give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free as the embodiment of the way we think about this country and immigration. as you look at history, does it track with the reality of how we have treated immigrants? dr. kraut: the history of immigration in the u.s. doesn t track at all with emma lazarus s wonderful quotation. it has been a love-hate relationship. in the 19th century, there was a popular immigrant saying, america beckons but americans repel. that is more accurate as to how our relationship with immigration has been in the united states. one of the great ironies is that emma lazarus wrote the poem in 1883, and one year before, in 1882, the u.s. passed the chinese exclusion law, excluding chinese laborers from coming to the united states. we would pass in the y
the subcommittee will come to order. the chair is authorized to declare recesses at any time. this one on the role of data and privacy in competition. i recognize myself for an opening statement. i should state the obvious, i m not the chairman of the subcommittee. the chairman of the subcommittee will be here in a few minutes. digital technologies have provided americans are a remarkable array of services. it has never been easier to share news and information, to publish content and communicate with loved ones. as with technological revolutions of the past this has up ended the balance of power across our country. it s important to understand how these imbalances are affecting americans. the committees ongoing oversight of competition in digital markets is a key part of this process. today s hearing will examine the role that data plays in creating rolls of power and how this affects competition. as previous hearings have shown, it s controlled by a small number of companie