June 13, 2025 • 37 mins
What's an American? In Part Six of our series, we tell the story of the single piece of legislation that changed the face of the United States...literally. "Historians" often claim immigrants are what made America strong. But the U.S. once had a 40-year immigration pause that led to what's been called the Golden Age of Capitalism.
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For the decade following the eighteen ninety eight Wonki Mark decision,
total immigration inflows averaged from eight hundred thousand to one
million per year, an almost twenty percent growth in US population.
They came with completely different beliefs, traditions, and languages.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
In nineteen sixteen, Randolph Bourne penned Transnational America. Born saw
the United States as a nation of immigrants, with none
being able to make an indigenous claim on American principles.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
We are all foreign born or the descendants of foreign born,
and if distinctions are to be made between us, they
should rightly be on some other ground than indigenousness.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Transnational America marked the emergence of a globalist movement in
its infancy. I'm Patrick CARELCI.
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And I'm Adriana Cortes.
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And this is Red Pilled America, a storytelling show. This
is not.
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Another talk show covering the day's news. We're all about
telling stories.
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Stories. Hollywood doesn't want you to hear stories.
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The media marks stories about everyday Americans. If the globalist ignore.
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You can think of Red Pilled America as audio documentaries.
And we promise only one thing, the truth. Welcome to
Red Pilled America. It was October third, nineteen sixty five,
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when President Lyndon B. Johnson made a bold claim to
the American.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
People this bill that we will sign today is not
a revolutionary bill. It does not affect the lives of millions.
It will not reshape the structure of our daily lives
or really add importantly to either our wealth or our power.
Yet it is still one of the most important acts
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of this Congress and of this administration. This measure that
we will sign today will really make us truer to ourselves,
both as a country and as a people. It will
strengthen us in a hundred unseen ways.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
But LBJ told one of the biggest presidential lies in
US history, because the bill he was about to sign
would not only weaken the country, but it would also
change the face of America. Literally. We're at part six
of our series of episodes entitled What's an American? We're
looking for the answer to that question by taking a
deep dive into the meaning of American citizenship. So to
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pick up where we left off in our last episode.
In nineteen fifty eight, the Supreme Court found that Congress
was within the powers of the US Constitution to revoke
the citizenship of Clement Martinez Perez. Perez was born to
Mexican nationals that were legally residing in Texas, but at
the age of ten, he moved with his family back
to Mexicao, where he lived for the next three decades plus.
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He married a Mexican national and the two raised seven
kids together. In Mexico, he admitted to living south of
the border to avoid the World War II draft. Time
after time, when asked, Perez identified as a Mexican citizen
and even cashed in on US labor programs for Mexican nationals.
He may have been born a citizen of both Mexico
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and the United States, but his allegiance was with his parents' homeland.
It was only after World War II, when the draft ended,
that Perez claimed he was an American citizen. However, when
he admitted to US officials that he voted in the
nineteen forty six Mexican presidential election, US immigration enforcement saw
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that as a voluntary act that showed allegiance to a
foreign power and revoked his U S citizenship, and in
nineteen fifty eight, the Supreme Court upheld that action. The
decision was monument The U. S. Supreme Court was effectively
saying that the Fourteenth Amendment protects birthright citizenship, but if
a person voluntarily places themselves under the sovereign control of
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another nation. They are stepping outside the jurisdiction and protection
of the US Constitution, and Congress can legally recognize that
by revoking citizenship status. In other words, voluntarily acting as
a dual citizen was grounds for losing American citizenship. The
American system required exclusive allegiance to the United States and
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her principles. In essence, the Court preserved the cornerstone of
American citizenship.
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But in the same year of the Perez decision, a
US senator stepped onto the national stage with a message
that would eventually be used to undermine what it meant
to be an American.
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We are the descendants of forty million people who left
other countries, other familiar scenes, to come here to the
United States, to build a new life, to make a
new opportunity for themselves and their children.
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In nineteen fifty eight, Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts
published an essay at the request of an activist organization.
The group wanted the Senator to portray immigration as America's
strength and identity. The organization that made the request was
the Anti Defamation League, a Jewish civil rights organization founded
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to fight anti Semitism. JFK agreed to publish the essay.
It was released as a small booklet titled A Nation
of Immigrants. The current CEO of the ADL, Jonathan Greenblatt,
would later reflect on the ADL's request in a forward.
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Of the book.
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ADL had launched a deliberate and determined campaign of advocacy
that began with one simple spark. This book its origins
traced back to the mid nineteen fifties, when ADL leadership,
alarmed by rising xenophobia and anti immigrant fervor, saw the
echoes of an earlier pattern. At numerous points in prior decades,
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America had closed its doors to people fleeing prejudice, discrimination
and violence. In the early nineteen hundreds, these were Jews
exiting Czarist Russia seeking a life free from pagrams. In
the nineteen thirties, these were Jews escaping Germany and neighbouring
countries during the brutality of the Third Reich. In the
nineteen forties, these were the Jews fleeing the graveyards of
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Europe and hoping to find a safer and more stable existence.
In the nineteen fifties, Jews were not the main group
that sought refuge but the recent trauma of their own
refugee experience had scarred the American Jewish community and its institutions,
including Ben.
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Then being the ADL National Director at the time, then Epstein.
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So he reached out to a young junior senator from
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and asked him to write a
book that explained our diverse American roots to the ill informed,
reminding them that the United States is a country of
refugees and a nation of immigrants. That senator was John F.
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Kennedy.
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Kennedy delivered on this request, but also did more. He
concluded his essay with his vision for immigration reform, particularly
the elimination of the National Origins quota system.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
The quota system that was in place in nineteen fifty
eight was designed to address a building concern among Americans.
In the early nineteen hundreds, the United States found itself
grappling with unprecedented waves of immigration, primarily from Southern and
Eastern Europe. These newcomers arrived with languages, religions, beliefs, politics,
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and customs that were vastly different from those of the
largely Anglo Saxon American mainstream. By the nineteen twenties, anxieties
over cultural cohesion and ideological subversion began to reshape national policy.
The result was a dramatic pause in immigration that would
last for four decades. At the core of this pause
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was a rising concern that the American identity, rooted in
shared values, language, and loyalty, was being diluted by the
arrival of groups who either resisted assimilation or viewed the
United States as merely a temporary stop for economic gain.
This phenomenon troubled the American people, and their concern was
not unfounded. In the early nineteen hundreds, most immigrants from
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Europe came through Ellis Island in New York Harbor. It
served as the nation's busiest immigration inspection station. More than
twelve million immigrants passed through Ellis Island during its operation,
most between nineteen hundred and nineteen twenty four, a period
of massive immigration. But the problem was an extraordinary number
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of these immigrants didn't stay or refused to assimilate. Historians
estimate that roughly one third of the immigrants who came
through Ellis Island eventually returned to their home countries. This
pattern of return migration was especially pronounced among immigrants from Italy,
the Balkans, and parts of Eastern Europe. Many of these
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migrants were young men who arrived not to settle permanently,
but to earn wages and eventually return home to buy
land or start businesses. They viewed America as an economic
zone to exploit. Their transitory presence raised questions among legacy
Americans about their commitment to American civic life, and further
fueled the notion that the nation was becoming a revolving
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door rather than a destination for genuine integration. Those that
stayed often huddled in their own ethnic enclaves, refusing to
assimilate into the American mainstream. Southern Italians made Little Italy
in New York. Poles created Polish Hill in Pittsburgh, the
Greeks formed Greektown in Detroit. Ashkenazi Jews gathered in the
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Lower East Side of Manhattan. The Slovaks created Bohemian Flats
in Minneapolis, the Ukrainians had Ukraine Village in Chicago, and
the Hungarians made Little Hungary in Cleveland. Assimilation was not
a priority for these new immigrants. Most had closer ties
with their home countries than with America. And they were
carrying with them the same beliefs and feuds that they
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had in the old world. If their numbers were kept small,
it wouldn't have been an issue. But these migrants were
coming in massive numbers with no end in sight. If
this phenomenon continued, American culture would not be defined by
the Anglo Saxon Protestant norms that made the country stable
and prosperous. It would effectively become the same multicultural land
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mass of Europe, a land mass that had suffered centuries
of bloodshed. The echoes of the founder's warnings about immigration
began ringing in the ears of legacy Americans, the voices
of founders like Thomas Jefferson.
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They will bring with them the principles of the governments
they leave imbibed in their early youth. In proportion to
their numbers. They will share with us the legislation. They
will in fuse into it their spirit, warp and bias
its direction, and render it a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass.
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John Quincy Adams had warned of this phenomenon.
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They must cast off the European skin, never to resume it.
They must look forward to their posterity rather than backward
to their ancestors. They must be sure that, whatever their
own feelings may be, those of their children will cling
to the prejudices of this country and will partake of
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that proud spirit.
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These new immigrants were not concerned about assimilation. They just
wanted to make a mini version of their ancestral lands.
So the American citizens of the time began to look
at immigration in a negative light. That's when pro immigration
advocates stepped in to try and change the tide, and
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Liberty was designed and gifted by France in the late
eighteen hundreds, who was meant to celebrate the Franco American
shared ideals of liberty and Republican government. There was no
explicit connection to immigration in its original conception. In eighteen
eighty three, a fundraising art auction was held to raise
money for the statue's pedestal. American poet Emma Lazarus was
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invited to contribute a literary work for the auction. At first,
she declined. As an American Jew, she was more focused
on aiding Jewish refugees fleeing Russian programs, But after being
told that the statue could serve as a beacon of
hope to persecute a Jews, she changed her mind and
wrote the sonnet the New Colossus. In it, Lazarus delivered
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one of the most famous lines in American literature.
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Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning
to breathe free.
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The poem was included in the auction and published in
the pamphlet, but it received little attention at the time
and was not part of the statue's official dedication. In
eighteen eighty six, a year after the statue's dedication, Emma
Lazarus died of cancer at the young age of thirty eight.
In the wake of her death, her work went largely overlooked,
but in the early nineteen hundreds, as concern over emigration
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assimilation began to pique. A deliberate campaign to counter anti
immigrant sentiment was under way. It looked to reframe the
Statue of Liberty not as an icon of liberty, but
instead as a symbol of immigration. The immigration processing center
Ellis Island was practically in Lady Liberty's shadow. Wealthy pro
immigration activists saw the statue as the perfect symbol to
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change the narrative about immigration, and thought marrying the statue
with the poem by Emma Lazarus would do the trick.
In nineteen oh three, they installed a bronze plaque featuring
the new Colossus poem inside the pedestal of the Statue
of Liberty. Over time, Lazarus's poem reshaped public perception of
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the Statue of Liberty not just as a symbol of freedom,
but as a mother figure welcoming immigrants to a new life.
This pro immigrant campaign continued in nineteen oh eight when
Israel Zangwell launched his play The Melting Pot in Washington,
d C. Also concerned with immigrant assimilation, President Theodore Roosevelt
helped elevate the Melting Pots phrases cultural impact. But by
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nineteen sixteen, as we learned earlier in this seay, a
movement took root that wanted to destroy America's Anglo Saxon
assimilation model and replace it with a globalist, multicultural United States.
Randolph Bourne marked this progressive shift with his essay Transnational America,
where he criticized the Anglo Saxon model of assimilation as
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just another form of oppression. He argued that America should
accept dual citizenship and celebrate hyphenated Americans. By nineteen nineteen,
Americans were becoming deeply concerned with the rise of this sentiment.
Former President Theodore Roosevelt captured the eras assimilationist ethos in
a nineteen nineteen letter on immigration, declaring, in.
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The first place, we should insist that if the immigrant
who comes here in good faith becomes an American and
assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an
exact equality with everyone else. For it is an outrage
to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace,
or origin. But this is dedicated upon the person's becoming
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in every facet an American and nothing but an American.
There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who
says he is an American, but something else also isn't
an American at all. We have room for but one flag,
the American flag. We have room for but one language here,
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and that is the English language. And we have room
for but one sole loyalty, and that is a loyalty
to the American people.
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Roosevelt's words reflected a belief widely shared across the political
spectrum that unity required not only legal allegiance, but full
cultural absorption. For those shaping immigration policy, Americanization was not
an optional process. It was essential for social cohesion and
the price of admission to the Republic. While immigration tensions
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at home rose, political developments abroad also intensified domestic fears.
Bare Lenin led the Bolshevik Revolution of nineteen seventeen, a
Marxist overthrow of Russia's provincial government. Americans feared radicals like
the Bolsheviks could be hidden among the immigrants ready to
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cause havoc in the United States, and their fears quickly
became reality. In nineteen nineteen, followers of an anarchist Italian
immigrant named Luigi Galiani targeted prominent government and business figures,
and one night they set off nine bombs in eight
different American cities. Including one outside the home of Attorney
General A. Mitchell Palmer. The homeland's bombings created deep unease
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that radical political ideologies were being imported alongside immigrants. Suspected
anarchists and communists, many of them foreign born, were arrested
and deported to many Americans. This validated the idea that
the country needed an immigration cooling off period to ensure
that the institutions would not be undermined by ideologies incompatible
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with American PRIs principles. These concerns culminated in the passage
of the Immigration Act of nineteen twenty four, an act
that drastically limited immigration. It capped the total of immigrants
to the US at one hundred and sixty five thousand
per year, with strict quotas based on national origin. Each
country was given a quota allowing only two percent of
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the number of people from that country who were already
living in the United States in eighteen ninety. About one
hundred and eighty two thousand Italian born people lived in
the US in eighteen ninety. That meant only around thirty
six hundred Italians could immigrate each year. About six hundred
and twenty five thousand Swedish born people lived in the
US in eighteen ninety, so Sweden's yearly quota was about
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twelve thousand, five hundred. Around two point eight million German
born people were living in the US then, so Germany's
annual cap was much higher, around fifty six thousand, and
so on and so on. This quota system heavily favored
immigrants from northern and western Europe like Britain, Germany, Ireland
and the like, while drastically limiting those from southern and
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eastern Europe, and it almost entirely barred immigration from Asia.
The only immigrants exempt from the quotas were spouses and
children of US citizens, skilled agricultural workers, certain types of professionals,
and refugees, but on a very limited basis. From nineteen
twenty five to nineteen twenty nine, average legal immigration was
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between one hundred and fifty thousand to one hundred and
sixty five thousand, a drastic reduction from a high of
nearly one point three million in nineteen oh seven. By
nineteen thirty one, immigration fell to ninety seven thousand, and
in nineteen thirty three, At the depths of the Great Depression,
the number of immigrants admitted into the US plummeted to
just twenty three thousand. The Immigration Act of nineteen twenty
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four was designed to favor people with a history of
successfully assimilating into America's Anglo Saxon culture, while giving everyone
else time to melt into the mainstream. Senate Majority leader
Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts framed the issue at the
time in terms of national stability. He feared that continued
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mass immigration from culturally distant regions would result in a
quote heterogeneous chaos instead of a homogeneous nation quote. In
his view, unchecked immigration was not merely a demographic issue.
It was a threat to the very cohesion of the Republic.
President Calvin Coolidge also held this belief. As he signed
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the bill into law, Coolidge.
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Proclaimed America must remain America.
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This quota system governed immigration until Congress modified it by
passing the Immigration and Nationality Act of nineteen fifty two.
The Act retained quotas, but shifted them to the demographics
of the nineteen twenty census. It also allowed Asians to
become naturalized citizens for the first time. The Act also
enabled ideological screening, allowing exclusion or deportation of sans suspected subversives,
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including communists. President Truman tried to veto the bill, but
Congress overrode the veto, signifying the national popularity of the act.
The principles expressed in this series of acts governed immigration
for over forty years. During this period, American culture emphasized
the importance of full assimilation, with English language instruction, patriotic rituals,
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and cultural conformity seen as essential to national unity. This
emigration pause was not simply a reaction to numbers, but
a deliberate effort to protect the cultural and political foundations
of the country. While later generations have critiqued this period
for its exclusivity, the policies were addressing legitimate concerns, namely
the desire to ensure that those who entered the United
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States did so not merely to extract opportunity, but to
embrace and uphold America's civic ideals. It was during this
time that America experienced extraordinary growth and prosperity. In some years,
the GDP grew to almost nine percent, an extraordinary number
considering that the modern standard of a healthy US economy
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is between two and two point five percent. In the
decades that followed World War II, median household incomes nearly doubled.
The US became the world's manufacturing leader with very little
global competition. Unemployment plummeted, and house ownership became the norm.
The GI Bill, suburbanization and consumer demand fueled sustained American expansion.
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Immigration was not a major driver of this boom. In fact,
it wasn't even a minor contributor. Labor needs were largely
met by the native born population. Where additional labor was needed,
temporary programs were used. From nineteen forty two to nineteen
sixty four. The Bracero program allowed seasonal Mexican labor and
agriculture without increasing permanent immigration. Domestic workforce expansion through the
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baby boom, and even an increase in women entering the
workforce filled many roles. Technological advancement and productivity growth also
reduced dependency on immigrant labor. The post World War II
economic boom came to be known as the Golden Age
of capitalism, and it all happened with an immigration pause.
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But like all good times, someone comes along to spoil
the party. The ADL convinced Senator John F. Kennedy to
take up the cause of so called immigration reform, and
it became a cornerstone of his nineteen sixty presidential run.
Speaker 11 (25:43):
Hell, I'm John Kennedy. Our present immigration laws are completely
unfair and discriminatory. Even though Iflee and England may have
the same population, we permit ten Englishmen to come in
for every Italian. We permit about three hundred Portuguese, about
the same number of Greeks. We permit very few Poles,
the Lithuanians, Czechs, or Hungarians, or Yugoslavs, Romanians of Bulgarians.
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It discriminates against Southern Europe and Eastern Europe. All this
was done in the McCarn Wallers Act, which was vetoed
by President Truman. I voted against the bill. I voted
to sustain the president's veto. Mister Nixon voted for the bill.
He voted to override the president's veto. I believe we
should do better. I believe we should be fairer, and
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I hope the next Congress and the next president will
write a fair immigration law.
Speaker 12 (26:32):
Help elect John F.
Speaker 9 (26:34):
Kennedy poor President.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Richard Nixon, who was Vice president in nineteen sixty, was
the early favorite for the White House, but after the
first televised presidential debates in history. The media went all
in for the telegenic JFK, and their thumb on the
scale made the difference.
Speaker 9 (26:50):
Dixon appeared at local GOP headquarters with his life to
the jeers of the campaign. Weren't almost four am E
virtually acknowledged.
Speaker 13 (26:57):
If peat, as I look at the board, where while
there are still some races, alt still to come in,
if the present trend continues, if mister Kennedy, Senator Kennedy
will be the next president of the United States, I
want Senator Kennedy to know, and I want all of you.
Speaker 10 (27:18):
To know that.
Speaker 13 (27:21):
Certainly, if this trend does continue and he does become
our next president, that he will have my wholehearted support.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
The nineteen sixty race for the White House was effectively over.
Speaker 14 (27:34):
In reply to the Vice President, I send him a
following Yar, Vice President Nixon, Los Angeles, California. Your sincere
good wishes are gratefully accepted. The next four years are
going to be difficult and challenging years for us all.
The election may have been a close one, but I
think that there is general agreement by all of our
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citizens that a supreme national effort will be needed in
the years ahead to move this country safely through the
nineteen sixties.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
The young, charismatic, Irish Catholic had won the race, but
the nineteen sixties would become anything but safe because radical
cultural movements that had been percolating below the surface began
to make noise in the mainstream.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
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Welcome back to Red Pilled America. During his victory speech
on the night of the nineteen sixty election, John F.
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Kennedy expressed to hope that unity would help Americans move
safely through the nineteen sixties.
Speaker 14 (28:46):
The election may have been a close one, but I
think that there is general agreement by all of our
citizens that a supreme national effort will be needed in
the years ahead to move this country safely through the
nineteen sixties.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
But the nineteen sixties would become anything but safe because
radical cultural movement that had been percolating below the surface
began to make some noise in the mainstream Malcolm X.
Speaker 12 (29:12):
He is the leader of the nationalist Negro movement known
as the Muslims, and mister X early this morning met
with Cuba's Fidel Castro here at the Hotel Teresa in
New York.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
These radical forces began promoting a different narrative about American history.
Instead of highlighting America's incredible history and the challenges that
the nation had overcome, they instead emphasized the darker history
of the American experiment.
Speaker 15 (29:40):
We are Africans, and we happen to be in America.
Speaker 14 (29:44):
We're not America.
Speaker 15 (29:45):
We are people who formerly were Africans, who were kidnapped
and brought to America. Our forefathers weren't the pilgrims. We
didn't land on Plymouth Route. The rat was landed on us.
We were brought here against our will. We were not
brought here be made citizens.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
These radicals attacked the cornerstone of American culture, the traditional family,
and the.
Speaker 16 (30:10):
War between the sexes could become an arma. God if
we don't get on with our revolution. But if we
do get on with it, and we restructure society to
make equality really possible, that I think the war between
the sexes will and and for the first time we
will have possible true human sexual liberation.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
They wanted to kill the thriving American way of life,
and at just the right moment they took their shot.
Speaker 9 (30:33):
There is a bulletin from CBS News in Dallas, Texas.
Three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade in downtown Dallas.
There has been an attempt, as perhaps you know now,
on the life of President Kennedy. He was wounded in
an automobile driving from Dallas Airport into downtown Dallas along
with Governor Connolly of Texas. They've been taken to Parkland
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Hospital there where their condition is as yet unknown.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
I have just talked to Father Oscar Hubert of the
only Trinity Catholic Church in another prison. Kill me that
a pair of men, have you administered the last rights
of the Catholic Church and President.
Speaker 9 (31:09):
Kennedy from Dallas, Texas. The flash apparently official. President Kennedy
died at one pm Central Standard time two o'clock Eastern
Standard time, some thirty eight minutes ago. Upon today's assassination
of President Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson became the new President
of the United States.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
The assassination of JFK unleashed a radical element in America
the likes of which the country had never seen before.
Speaker 17 (31:38):
There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes
so odious, makes.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
You so sick at heart.
Speaker 17 (31:45):
But you can't take part, you can't even passively take part.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears
and upon.
Speaker 17 (31:52):
The wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and
you've got to make it stop, and you've got to
indicate to the people who run it, to the people
who own it.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
Then unless you're free, the machine well be prevented pro.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
Working at all.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
They were emboldened and took on some of the worst
elements of the racial division. They claimed to be fighting against.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Black power, you black power.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
With the nation still mourning the death of its leader,
the radical left had a brief window to enact just
about anything on JFK's agenda, and they decided to use
the moment to change the fabric of America. They brought
to life the goals expressed in the late President's essay
a Nation of Immigrants, Because you see, lawmakers couldn't do
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it when JFK was alive. After JFK's White House win
he urged Congress to pass legislation that would strike down
the national origins quota system. In nineteen sixty three, he
sent a message to Congress.
Speaker 18 (33:00):
The national origin system is without base either logic or reason.
It is an anachronism that would be indefensible even if
it had not been rendered meaningless by changes in the
world and in the United States.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
He wanted Congress to bring an end to the quota
system with so called immigration reform. To help give Congress momentum,
he quickly expanded his earlier essay A Nation of Immigrants
into a short book, which was published and circulated by
the ADL. In response, Congress drafted the Heart Seller Act.
The bill claimed to create an immigration system that focused
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on family reunification and merit based immigration. If passed, it
would abolish the national origin's quota system, under which the
nation had flourished for forty years. But the bill stalled
in committee. With radical elements clearly seeping into American institutions,
lawmakers were hesitant to pass legislation that could up end
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the stability of the nation, so the bill stalled and
never made it to a vote. But once JFK was assassin,
a window of opportunity was opened. Democrats seized the moment
and made another attempt at opening up the immigration system.
The charge was led by JFK's youngest brother, Ted Kennedy.
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When JFK won the White House, his Massachusetts Senate seat
became vacant. During a special election in nineteen sixty two,
Ted Kennedy won the seat. So when the Heart Seller
Act came before Congress in nineteen sixty five, Ted Kennedy
took the lead in arguing for its passage. To soften
up the opposition, he made a bold claim about the act.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
In a February nineteen sixty five Senate hearing, Ted Kennedy said,
the bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It
will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It
will not relax the standards of admission. It will not
cause American workers to lose their jobs.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
The resistance that left the bill stuck in committee just
two years earlier completely collapsed. It easily passed both the
House and the Senate, and on October third, nineteen sixty five,
President Lyndon B. Johnson stood at the base of the
Statue of Liberty. The rebranded Monument to Immigration and spoke
of the significance of the Immigration and Nationality Act of
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nineteen sixty five.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
For over four decades, the immigration policy of the United
States has been twisted by the harsh injustice of the
national origin's quota system. Under that system, the ability of
new emigrants to come to America depended upon the country
of their birth. Only three countries were allowed to supply
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seventy percent of all the immigrants. It has been un
American in the high sense, because it has been untrue
to the faith that brought thousands to these shores even
before we were a country. Today, with my signature, this
system is abolished. Now under the Monument, which has welcomed
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so many to our shores, the American nation returns to
the finest of its traditions. Today. The days of unlimited
immigration are past. But those who do come will come
because of what they are and not because of the
land from which they're from.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
The President, Lyndon B. Johnson was lying to the public
because the Democrats were about to open the floodgates.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
To America, coming up on red pilled America.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
As the end of the nineteen sixties approached, radicals began
to emerge from the shadows in America's universities.
Speaker 17 (36:54):
It's my great honor today to introduce to you one
of the greatest thinkers of our age, but Marcuza.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
But for their transnational America to become a reality, they
first had to reverse the Perez Supreme Court decision and
make dual citizenship effectively legal.
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For the decade following the eighteen ninety eight Wonki Mark decision,
total immigration inflows averaged from eight hundred thousand to one
million per year, an almost twenty percent growth in US population.
They came with completely different beliefs, traditions, and languages.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
In nineteen sixteen, Randolph Bourne penned Transnational America. Born saw
the United States as a nation of immigrants, with none
being able to make an indigenous claim on American principles.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
We are all foreign born or the descendants of foreign born,
and if distinctions are to be made between us, they
should rightly be on some other ground than indigenousness.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Transnational America marked the emergence of a globalist movement in
its infancy. I'm Patrick CARELCI.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
And I'm Adriana Cortes.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
And this is Red Pilled America, a storytelling show. This
is not.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Another talk show covering the day's news. We're all about
telling stories.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Stories. Hollywood doesn't want you to hear stories.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
The media marks stories about everyday Americans. If the globalist ignore.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
You can think of Red Pilled America as audio documentaries.
And we promise only one thing, the truth. Welcome to
Red Pilled America. It was October third, nineteen sixty five,
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when President Lyndon B. Johnson made a bold claim to
the American.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
People this bill that we will sign today is not
a revolutionary bill. It does not affect the lives of millions.
It will not reshape the structure of our daily lives
or really add importantly to either our wealth or our power.
Yet it is still one of the most important acts
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of this Congress and of this administration. This measure that
we will sign today will really make us truer to ourselves,
both as a country and as a people. It will
strengthen us in a hundred unseen ways.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
But LBJ told one of the biggest presidential lies in
US history, because the bill he was about to sign
would not only weaken the country, but it would also
change the face of America. Literally. We're at part six
of our series of episodes entitled What's an American? We're
looking for the answer to that question by taking a
deep dive into the meaning of American citizenship. So to
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pick up where we left off in our last episode.
In nineteen fifty eight, the Supreme Court found that Congress
was within the powers of the US Constitution to revoke
the citizenship of Clement Martinez Perez. Perez was born to
Mexican nationals that were legally residing in Texas, but at
the age of ten, he moved with his family back
to Mexicao, where he lived for the next three decades plus.
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He married a Mexican national and the two raised seven
kids together. In Mexico, he admitted to living south of
the border to avoid the World War II draft. Time
after time, when asked, Perez identified as a Mexican citizen
and even cashed in on US labor programs for Mexican nationals.
He may have been born a citizen of both Mexico
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and the United States, but his allegiance was with his parents' homeland.
It was only after World War II, when the draft ended,
that Perez claimed he was an American citizen. However, when
he admitted to US officials that he voted in the
nineteen forty six Mexican presidential election, US immigration enforcement saw
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that as a voluntary act that showed allegiance to a
foreign power and revoked his U S citizenship, and in
nineteen fifty eight, the Supreme Court upheld that action. The
decision was monument The U. S. Supreme Court was effectively
saying that the Fourteenth Amendment protects birthright citizenship, but if
a person voluntarily places themselves under the sovereign control of
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another nation. They are stepping outside the jurisdiction and protection
of the US Constitution, and Congress can legally recognize that
by revoking citizenship status. In other words, voluntarily acting as
a dual citizen was grounds for losing American citizenship. The
American system required exclusive allegiance to the United States and
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her principles. In essence, the Court preserved the cornerstone of
American citizenship.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
But in the same year of the Perez decision, a
US senator stepped onto the national stage with a message
that would eventually be used to undermine what it meant
to be an American.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
We are the descendants of forty million people who left
other countries, other familiar scenes, to come here to the
United States, to build a new life, to make a
new opportunity for themselves and their children.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
In nineteen fifty eight, Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts
published an essay at the request of an activist organization.
The group wanted the Senator to portray immigration as America's
strength and identity. The organization that made the request was
the Anti Defamation League, a Jewish civil rights organization founded
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to fight anti Semitism. JFK agreed to publish the essay.
It was released as a small booklet titled A Nation
of Immigrants. The current CEO of the ADL, Jonathan Greenblatt,
would later reflect on the ADL's request in a forward.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Of the book.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
ADL had launched a deliberate and determined campaign of advocacy
that began with one simple spark. This book its origins
traced back to the mid nineteen fifties, when ADL leadership,
alarmed by rising xenophobia and anti immigrant fervor, saw the
echoes of an earlier pattern. At numerous points in prior decades,
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America had closed its doors to people fleeing prejudice, discrimination
and violence. In the early nineteen hundreds, these were Jews
exiting Czarist Russia seeking a life free from pagrams. In
the nineteen thirties, these were Jews escaping Germany and neighbouring
countries during the brutality of the Third Reich. In the
nineteen forties, these were the Jews fleeing the graveyards of
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Europe and hoping to find a safer and more stable existence.
In the nineteen fifties, Jews were not the main group
that sought refuge but the recent trauma of their own
refugee experience had scarred the American Jewish community and its institutions,
including Ben.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Then being the ADL National Director at the time, then Epstein.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
So he reached out to a young junior senator from
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and asked him to write a
book that explained our diverse American roots to the ill informed,
reminding them that the United States is a country of
refugees and a nation of immigrants. That senator was John F.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Kennedy.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Kennedy delivered on this request, but also did more. He
concluded his essay with his vision for immigration reform, particularly
the elimination of the National Origins quota system.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
The quota system that was in place in nineteen fifty
eight was designed to address a building concern among Americans.
In the early nineteen hundreds, the United States found itself
grappling with unprecedented waves of immigration, primarily from Southern and
Eastern Europe. These newcomers arrived with languages, religions, beliefs, politics,
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and customs that were vastly different from those of the
largely Anglo Saxon American mainstream. By the nineteen twenties, anxieties
over cultural cohesion and ideological subversion began to reshape national policy.
The result was a dramatic pause in immigration that would
last for four decades. At the core of this pause
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was a rising concern that the American identity, rooted in
shared values, language, and loyalty, was being diluted by the
arrival of groups who either resisted assimilation or viewed the
United States as merely a temporary stop for economic gain.
This phenomenon troubled the American people, and their concern was
not unfounded. In the early nineteen hundreds, most immigrants from
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Europe came through Ellis Island in New York Harbor. It
served as the nation's busiest immigration inspection station. More than
twelve million immigrants passed through Ellis Island during its operation,
most between nineteen hundred and nineteen twenty four, a period
of massive immigration. But the problem was an extraordinary number
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of these immigrants didn't stay or refused to assimilate. Historians
estimate that roughly one third of the immigrants who came
through Ellis Island eventually returned to their home countries. This
pattern of return migration was especially pronounced among immigrants from Italy,
the Balkans, and parts of Eastern Europe. Many of these
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migrants were young men who arrived not to settle permanently,
but to earn wages and eventually return home to buy
land or start businesses. They viewed America as an economic
zone to exploit. Their transitory presence raised questions among legacy
Americans about their commitment to American civic life, and further
fueled the notion that the nation was becoming a revolving
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door rather than a destination for genuine integration. Those that
stayed often huddled in their own ethnic enclaves, refusing to
assimilate into the American mainstream. Southern Italians made Little Italy
in New York. Poles created Polish Hill in Pittsburgh, the
Greeks formed Greektown in Detroit. Ashkenazi Jews gathered in the
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Lower East Side of Manhattan. The Slovaks created Bohemian Flats
in Minneapolis, the Ukrainians had Ukraine Village in Chicago, and
the Hungarians made Little Hungary in Cleveland. Assimilation was not
a priority for these new immigrants. Most had closer ties
with their home countries than with America. And they were
carrying with them the same beliefs and feuds that they
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had in the old world. If their numbers were kept small,
it wouldn't have been an issue. But these migrants were
coming in massive numbers with no end in sight. If
this phenomenon continued, American culture would not be defined by
the Anglo Saxon Protestant norms that made the country stable
and prosperous. It would effectively become the same multicultural land
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mass of Europe, a land mass that had suffered centuries
of bloodshed. The echoes of the founder's warnings about immigration
began ringing in the ears of legacy Americans, the voices
of founders like Thomas Jefferson.
Speaker 8 (11:53):
They will bring with them the principles of the governments
they leave imbibed in their early youth. In proportion to
their numbers. They will share with us the legislation. They
will in fuse into it their spirit, warp and bias
its direction, and render it a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
John Quincy Adams had warned of this phenomenon.
Speaker 7 (12:13):
They must cast off the European skin, never to resume it.
They must look forward to their posterity rather than backward
to their ancestors. They must be sure that, whatever their
own feelings may be, those of their children will cling
to the prejudices of this country and will partake of
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that proud spirit.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
These new immigrants were not concerned about assimilation. They just
wanted to make a mini version of their ancestral lands.
So the American citizens of the time began to look
at immigration in a negative light. That's when pro immigration
advocates stepped in to try and change the tide, and
they used one of the most iconic American landmarks to
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launch their campaign, licorice.
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Welcome back to Red Pilled America. When the Statue of
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Liberty was designed and gifted by France in the late
eighteen hundreds, who was meant to celebrate the Franco American
shared ideals of liberty and Republican government. There was no
explicit connection to immigration in its original conception. In eighteen
eighty three, a fundraising art auction was held to raise
money for the statue's pedestal. American poet Emma Lazarus was
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invited to contribute a literary work for the auction. At first,
she declined. As an American Jew, she was more focused
on aiding Jewish refugees fleeing Russian programs, But after being
told that the statue could serve as a beacon of
hope to persecute a Jews, she changed her mind and
wrote the sonnet the New Colossus. In it, Lazarus delivered
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one of the most famous lines in American literature.
Speaker 9 (15:24):
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning
to breathe free.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
The poem was included in the auction and published in
the pamphlet, but it received little attention at the time
and was not part of the statue's official dedication. In
eighteen eighty six, a year after the statue's dedication, Emma
Lazarus died of cancer at the young age of thirty eight.
In the wake of her death, her work went largely overlooked,
but in the early nineteen hundreds, as concern over emigration
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assimilation began to pique. A deliberate campaign to counter anti
immigrant sentiment was under way. It looked to reframe the
Statue of Liberty not as an icon of liberty, but
instead as a symbol of immigration. The immigration processing center
Ellis Island was practically in Lady Liberty's shadow. Wealthy pro
immigration activists saw the statue as the perfect symbol to
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change the narrative about immigration, and thought marrying the statue
with the poem by Emma Lazarus would do the trick.
In nineteen oh three, they installed a bronze plaque featuring
the new Colossus poem inside the pedestal of the Statue
of Liberty. Over time, Lazarus's poem reshaped public perception of
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the Statue of Liberty not just as a symbol of freedom,
but as a mother figure welcoming immigrants to a new life.
This pro immigrant campaign continued in nineteen oh eight when
Israel Zangwell launched his play The Melting Pot in Washington,
d C. Also concerned with immigrant assimilation, President Theodore Roosevelt
helped elevate the Melting Pots phrases cultural impact. But by
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nineteen sixteen, as we learned earlier in this seay, a
movement took root that wanted to destroy America's Anglo Saxon
assimilation model and replace it with a globalist, multicultural United States.
Randolph Bourne marked this progressive shift with his essay Transnational America,
where he criticized the Anglo Saxon model of assimilation as
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just another form of oppression. He argued that America should
accept dual citizenship and celebrate hyphenated Americans. By nineteen nineteen,
Americans were becoming deeply concerned with the rise of this sentiment.
Former President Theodore Roosevelt captured the eras assimilationist ethos in
a nineteen nineteen letter on immigration, declaring, in.
Speaker 10 (17:43):
The first place, we should insist that if the immigrant
who comes here in good faith becomes an American and
assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an
exact equality with everyone else. For it is an outrage
to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace,
or origin. But this is dedicated upon the person's becoming
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in every facet an American and nothing but an American.
There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who
says he is an American, but something else also isn't
an American at all. We have room for but one flag,
the American flag. We have room for but one language here,
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and that is the English language. And we have room
for but one sole loyalty, and that is a loyalty
to the American people.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Roosevelt's words reflected a belief widely shared across the political
spectrum that unity required not only legal allegiance, but full
cultural absorption. For those shaping immigration policy, Americanization was not
an optional process. It was essential for social cohesion and
the price of admission to the Republic. While immigration tensions
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at home rose, political developments abroad also intensified domestic fears.
Bare Lenin led the Bolshevik Revolution of nineteen seventeen, a
Marxist overthrow of Russia's provincial government. Americans feared radicals like
the Bolsheviks could be hidden among the immigrants ready to
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cause havoc in the United States, and their fears quickly
became reality. In nineteen nineteen, followers of an anarchist Italian
immigrant named Luigi Galiani targeted prominent government and business figures,
and one night they set off nine bombs in eight
different American cities. Including one outside the home of Attorney
General A. Mitchell Palmer. The homeland's bombings created deep unease
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that radical political ideologies were being imported alongside immigrants. Suspected
anarchists and communists, many of them foreign born, were arrested
and deported to many Americans. This validated the idea that
the country needed an immigration cooling off period to ensure
that the institutions would not be undermined by ideologies incompatible
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with American PRIs principles. These concerns culminated in the passage
of the Immigration Act of nineteen twenty four, an act
that drastically limited immigration. It capped the total of immigrants
to the US at one hundred and sixty five thousand
per year, with strict quotas based on national origin. Each
country was given a quota allowing only two percent of
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the number of people from that country who were already
living in the United States in eighteen ninety. About one
hundred and eighty two thousand Italian born people lived in
the US in eighteen ninety. That meant only around thirty
six hundred Italians could immigrate each year. About six hundred
and twenty five thousand Swedish born people lived in the
US in eighteen ninety, so Sweden's yearly quota was about
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twelve thousand, five hundred. Around two point eight million German
born people were living in the US then, so Germany's
annual cap was much higher, around fifty six thousand, and
so on and so on. This quota system heavily favored
immigrants from northern and western Europe like Britain, Germany, Ireland
and the like, while drastically limiting those from southern and
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eastern Europe, and it almost entirely barred immigration from Asia.
The only immigrants exempt from the quotas were spouses and
children of US citizens, skilled agricultural workers, certain types of professionals,
and refugees, but on a very limited basis. From nineteen
twenty five to nineteen twenty nine, average legal immigration was
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between one hundred and fifty thousand to one hundred and
sixty five thousand, a drastic reduction from a high of
nearly one point three million in nineteen oh seven. By
nineteen thirty one, immigration fell to ninety seven thousand, and
in nineteen thirty three, At the depths of the Great Depression,
the number of immigrants admitted into the US plummeted to
just twenty three thousand. The Immigration Act of nineteen twenty
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four was designed to favor people with a history of
successfully assimilating into America's Anglo Saxon culture, while giving everyone
else time to melt into the mainstream. Senate Majority leader
Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts framed the issue at the
time in terms of national stability. He feared that continued
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mass immigration from culturally distant regions would result in a
quote heterogeneous chaos instead of a homogeneous nation quote. In
his view, unchecked immigration was not merely a demographic issue.
It was a threat to the very cohesion of the Republic.
President Calvin Coolidge also held this belief. As he signed
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the bill into law, Coolidge.
Speaker 7 (22:36):
Proclaimed America must remain America.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
This quota system governed immigration until Congress modified it by
passing the Immigration and Nationality Act of nineteen fifty two.
The Act retained quotas, but shifted them to the demographics
of the nineteen twenty census. It also allowed Asians to
become naturalized citizens for the first time. The Act also
enabled ideological screening, allowing exclusion or deportation of sans suspected subversives,
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including communists. President Truman tried to veto the bill, but
Congress overrode the veto, signifying the national popularity of the act.
The principles expressed in this series of acts governed immigration
for over forty years. During this period, American culture emphasized
the importance of full assimilation, with English language instruction, patriotic rituals,
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and cultural conformity seen as essential to national unity. This
emigration pause was not simply a reaction to numbers, but
a deliberate effort to protect the cultural and political foundations
of the country. While later generations have critiqued this period
for its exclusivity, the policies were addressing legitimate concerns, namely
the desire to ensure that those who entered the United
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States did so not merely to extract opportunity, but to
embrace and uphold America's civic ideals. It was during this
time that America experienced extraordinary growth and prosperity. In some years,
the GDP grew to almost nine percent, an extraordinary number
considering that the modern standard of a healthy US economy
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is between two and two point five percent. In the
decades that followed World War II, median household incomes nearly doubled.
The US became the world's manufacturing leader with very little
global competition. Unemployment plummeted, and house ownership became the norm.
The GI Bill, suburbanization and consumer demand fueled sustained American expansion.
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Immigration was not a major driver of this boom. In fact,
it wasn't even a minor contributor. Labor needs were largely
met by the native born population. Where additional labor was needed,
temporary programs were used. From nineteen forty two to nineteen
sixty four. The Bracero program allowed seasonal Mexican labor and
agriculture without increasing permanent immigration. Domestic workforce expansion through the
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baby boom, and even an increase in women entering the
workforce filled many roles. Technological advancement and productivity growth also
reduced dependency on immigrant labor. The post World War II
economic boom came to be known as the Golden Age
of capitalism, and it all happened with an immigration pause.
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But like all good times, someone comes along to spoil
the party. The ADL convinced Senator John F. Kennedy to
take up the cause of so called immigration reform, and
it became a cornerstone of his nineteen sixty presidential run.
Speaker 11 (25:43):
Hell, I'm John Kennedy. Our present immigration laws are completely
unfair and discriminatory. Even though Iflee and England may have
the same population, we permit ten Englishmen to come in
for every Italian. We permit about three hundred Portuguese, about
the same number of Greeks. We permit very few Poles,
the Lithuanians, Czechs, or Hungarians, or Yugoslavs, Romanians of Bulgarians.
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It discriminates against Southern Europe and Eastern Europe. All this
was done in the McCarn Wallers Act, which was vetoed
by President Truman. I voted against the bill. I voted
to sustain the president's veto. Mister Nixon voted for the bill.
He voted to override the president's veto. I believe we
should do better. I believe we should be fairer, and
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I hope the next Congress and the next president will
write a fair immigration law.
Speaker 12 (26:32):
Help elect John F.
Speaker 9 (26:34):
Kennedy poor President.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Richard Nixon, who was Vice president in nineteen sixty, was
the early favorite for the White House, but after the
first televised presidential debates in history. The media went all
in for the telegenic JFK, and their thumb on the
scale made the difference.
Speaker 9 (26:50):
Dixon appeared at local GOP headquarters with his life to
the jeers of the campaign. Weren't almost four am E
virtually acknowledged.
Speaker 13 (26:57):
If peat, as I look at the board, where while
there are still some races, alt still to come in,
if the present trend continues, if mister Kennedy, Senator Kennedy
will be the next president of the United States, I
want Senator Kennedy to know, and I want all of you.
Speaker 10 (27:18):
To know that.
Speaker 13 (27:21):
Certainly, if this trend does continue and he does become
our next president, that he will have my wholehearted support.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
The nineteen sixty race for the White House was effectively over.
Speaker 14 (27:34):
In reply to the Vice President, I send him a
following Yar, Vice President Nixon, Los Angeles, California. Your sincere
good wishes are gratefully accepted. The next four years are
going to be difficult and challenging years for us all.
The election may have been a close one, but I
think that there is general agreement by all of our
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citizens that a supreme national effort will be needed in
the years ahead to move this country safely through the
nineteen sixties.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
The young, charismatic, Irish Catholic had won the race, but
the nineteen sixties would become anything but safe because radical
cultural movements that had been percolating below the surface began
to make noise in the mainstream.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
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Welcome back to Red Pilled America. During his victory speech
on the night of the nineteen sixty election, John F.
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Kennedy expressed to hope that unity would help Americans move
safely through the nineteen sixties.
Speaker 14 (28:46):
The election may have been a close one, but I
think that there is general agreement by all of our
citizens that a supreme national effort will be needed in
the years ahead to move this country safely through the
nineteen sixties.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
But the nineteen sixties would become anything but safe because
radical cultural movement that had been percolating below the surface
began to make some noise in the mainstream Malcolm X.
Speaker 12 (29:12):
He is the leader of the nationalist Negro movement known
as the Muslims, and mister X early this morning met
with Cuba's Fidel Castro here at the Hotel Teresa in
New York.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
These radical forces began promoting a different narrative about American history.
Instead of highlighting America's incredible history and the challenges that
the nation had overcome, they instead emphasized the darker history
of the American experiment.
Speaker 15 (29:40):
We are Africans, and we happen to be in America.
Speaker 14 (29:44):
We're not America.
Speaker 15 (29:45):
We are people who formerly were Africans, who were kidnapped
and brought to America. Our forefathers weren't the pilgrims. We
didn't land on Plymouth Route. The rat was landed on us.
We were brought here against our will. We were not
brought here be made citizens.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
These radicals attacked the cornerstone of American culture, the traditional family,
and the.
Speaker 16 (30:10):
War between the sexes could become an arma. God if
we don't get on with our revolution. But if we
do get on with it, and we restructure society to
make equality really possible, that I think the war between
the sexes will and and for the first time we
will have possible true human sexual liberation.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
They wanted to kill the thriving American way of life,
and at just the right moment they took their shot.
Speaker 9 (30:33):
There is a bulletin from CBS News in Dallas, Texas.
Three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade in downtown Dallas.
There has been an attempt, as perhaps you know now,
on the life of President Kennedy. He was wounded in
an automobile driving from Dallas Airport into downtown Dallas along
with Governor Connolly of Texas. They've been taken to Parkland
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Hospital there where their condition is as yet unknown.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
I have just talked to Father Oscar Hubert of the
only Trinity Catholic Church in another prison. Kill me that
a pair of men, have you administered the last rights
of the Catholic Church and President.
Speaker 9 (31:09):
Kennedy from Dallas, Texas. The flash apparently official. President Kennedy
died at one pm Central Standard time two o'clock Eastern
Standard time, some thirty eight minutes ago. Upon today's assassination
of President Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson became the new President
of the United States.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
The assassination of JFK unleashed a radical element in America
the likes of which the country had never seen before.
Speaker 17 (31:38):
There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes
so odious, makes.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
You so sick at heart.
Speaker 17 (31:45):
But you can't take part, you can't even passively take part.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears
and upon.
Speaker 17 (31:52):
The wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and
you've got to make it stop, and you've got to
indicate to the people who run it, to the people
who own it.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
Then unless you're free, the machine well be prevented pro.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
Working at all.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
They were emboldened and took on some of the worst
elements of the racial division. They claimed to be fighting against.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Black power, you black power.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
With the nation still mourning the death of its leader,
the radical left had a brief window to enact just
about anything on JFK's agenda, and they decided to use
the moment to change the fabric of America. They brought
to life the goals expressed in the late President's essay
a Nation of Immigrants, Because you see, lawmakers couldn't do
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it when JFK was alive. After JFK's White House win
he urged Congress to pass legislation that would strike down
the national origins quota system. In nineteen sixty three, he
sent a message to Congress.
Speaker 18 (33:00):
The national origin system is without base either logic or reason.
It is an anachronism that would be indefensible even if
it had not been rendered meaningless by changes in the
world and in the United States.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
He wanted Congress to bring an end to the quota
system with so called immigration reform. To help give Congress momentum,
he quickly expanded his earlier essay A Nation of Immigrants
into a short book, which was published and circulated by
the ADL. In response, Congress drafted the Heart Seller Act.
The bill claimed to create an immigration system that focused
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on family reunification and merit based immigration. If passed, it
would abolish the national origin's quota system, under which the
nation had flourished for forty years. But the bill stalled
in committee. With radical elements clearly seeping into American institutions,
lawmakers were hesitant to pass legislation that could up end
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the stability of the nation, so the bill stalled and
never made it to a vote. But once JFK was assassin,
a window of opportunity was opened. Democrats seized the moment
and made another attempt at opening up the immigration system.
The charge was led by JFK's youngest brother, Ted Kennedy.
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When JFK won the White House, his Massachusetts Senate seat
became vacant. During a special election in nineteen sixty two,
Ted Kennedy won the seat. So when the Heart Seller
Act came before Congress in nineteen sixty five, Ted Kennedy
took the lead in arguing for its passage. To soften
up the opposition, he made a bold claim about the act.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
In a February nineteen sixty five Senate hearing, Ted Kennedy said,
the bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It
will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It
will not relax the standards of admission. It will not
cause American workers to lose their jobs.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
The resistance that left the bill stuck in committee just
two years earlier completely collapsed. It easily passed both the
House and the Senate, and on October third, nineteen sixty five,
President Lyndon B. Johnson stood at the base of the
Statue of Liberty. The rebranded Monument to Immigration and spoke
of the significance of the Immigration and Nationality Act of
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nineteen sixty five.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
For over four decades, the immigration policy of the United
States has been twisted by the harsh injustice of the
national origin's quota system. Under that system, the ability of
new emigrants to come to America depended upon the country
of their birth. Only three countries were allowed to supply
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seventy percent of all the immigrants. It has been un
American in the high sense, because it has been untrue
to the faith that brought thousands to these shores even
before we were a country. Today, with my signature, this
system is abolished. Now under the Monument, which has welcomed
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so many to our shores, the American nation returns to
the finest of its traditions. Today. The days of unlimited
immigration are past. But those who do come will come
because of what they are and not because of the
land from which they're from.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
The President, Lyndon B. Johnson was lying to the public
because the Democrats were about to open the floodgates.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
To America, coming up on red pilled America.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
As the end of the nineteen sixties approached, radicals began
to emerge from the shadows in America's universities.
Speaker 17 (36:54):
It's my great honor today to introduce to you one
of the greatest thinkers of our age, but Marcuza.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
But for their transnational America to become a reality, they
first had to reverse the Perez Supreme Court decision and
make dual citizenship effectively legal.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
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Speaker 10 (37:24):
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