>>20584098

As his life and career relate to enabling illegal immigration in these United States I respectfully stand my ground, Anon.

"The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants,” lead supporter Sen. Edward “Ted” Kennedy (D-Mass.) told the Senate during debate. “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.”

https://www.history.com/news/immigration-act-1965-changes

https://millercenter.org/issues-policy/us-domestic-policy/ted-kennedy-lbj-and-immigration-reform

1965 Immigration Bill Changed Face of America

As a first-term senator, Ted Kennedy championed the rewriting of America's restrictive immigration laws drafted in the 1920s.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/classroom/daily-videos/2023/08/1965-immigration-bill-changed-face-of-america

Mr. Kennedy's character speaks for itself. [Picrel]

>>20584168

>what is going on now

The White House wants to revisit the 1965 Immigration Act, which opened America’s doors wide to immigrants of color and produced the most sweeping demographic transformation of the country in its history.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/consequences-of-amending-the-1965-immigration-act/536094/

How a 1965 immigration law forever changed the makeup of America

https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/519189-how-a-1965-immigration-law-forever-changed-the-makeup-of-america/

How a 1965 law changed the faces of America

Mr Trump says he doesn’t read statistics, so it’s unlikely that he will let facts trouble the misguided dogma he is touting. But his obstructionism is a shame because the findings of the report show how much America was changed (and improved, in the eyes of many) by the passage of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, which abolished an immigration system that favoured white northern and western Europeans and severely restricted immigration from all other parts of the world.

https://www.economist.com/democracy-in-america/2015/09/30/how-a-1965-law-changed-the-faces-of-america