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Bleeding hearts: Defend this
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21/04/2008 14:38:52
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
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21/04/2008 14:34:56
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>Actually he is correct to a point. Other than the Chinese exclusion law, Congress passed the very first Immigration Quota Act of 1921 and the even more restrictive Immigration Act of 1924.
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>Up until then it was a free for all and no immigration (other than Chinese) was illegal.

Yes, but the question in this case is whether the original owners - the indians - allowed immigration. I would say originally they did, but then the European colonizers went way further than any original agreement allowed for.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
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