Fact Check: Biden Claims ‘Immigration Has Always Been Essential to America’

[danielpalos]

Fact Check: Biden Claims ‘Immigration Has Always Been Essential to America’
Fact Check: Biden Claims 'Immigration Has Always Been Essential' (breitbart.com)
28 Apr 2021 ~~ By Neil Munro

CLAIM:
President Joe Biden said in his 2021 speech to Congress,
“Immigration has always been essential to America.”​

VERDICT: FALSE. The United States won World War II, created a middle-class economy, invented many new technologies, revived racial equality, and landed astronauts on the moon during the long period of low migration between 1925 and 1970.

From the 1840s onward, waves of European immigrants flooded into the emerging industrial economy, helping to fill factories providing a cornucopia of goods, including rivers of cheap autos from Detroit factories in the early 1900s.
But public pressure forced Congress to sharply reduce migration in 1924.
The number of new immigrants was 800,000 in 1921 — but it quickly dropped by more than 90 percent, to just 29,000 in 1934 and 39,000 in 1945.
The resident population of immigrant Americans dropped from 14 million in 1920 to 9.6 million in 1970.
In 1955, pro-migration groups began claiming the United States was a “Nation of Immigrants,” but immigrants were only 7 percent of the population in 1955, down from 15 percent in 1910.
New arrivals slowly rose amid the Cold War as Congress welcomed people fleeing communism. In 1957, for example, Hungarian migrants fleeting the Soviet takeover helped bump new arrivals to 327,000.
But U.S. inventions and productivity continued to boom during this low-migration period.

Comment;
Legal Immigration has helped America. Illegal Immigration destroys it. Progressive Marxist/DSA Democrat know that, yet they continue to push illegal immigration for power over the citizens of America.
There was a time, where America as a new nation had vast unpopulated areas to populate, a voracious need for unskilled and semi-skilled labor in industry, and even a need for cannon fodder (during the Civil War).
None of that applies now.
America no longer has a need for legal immigrants. Meanwhile, Illegal immigration is a great threat to national security and we
Legal immigration exists to serve the Republic and its Citizens, not the immigrant.
The only immigrants that should be allowed in the US are ones who Legally come, bring some sort of capital with them: money, patents, talent, or advanced training and education. No legal immigrant is allowed into the US if they cannot support themselves or will displace an American from his job.
Illegal immigration is the antithesis and usurper of American Constitutional Law.

Your family came here legally? Where are you papers?

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Indeed, both sides of my family came through Ellis Island at the turn of the century. Their names are listed there. I also have my grandfather's naturalization papers dated 1914.
How about you can you trace the method of entry for your family?

No, my family came over before there were closed borders. Inn other words before the era of the Civil War....They were immigrants. The ones who provided sons and daughters to help fight the wars in the US. Half of them were those vile Irish people hated.

So your family fought to keep blacks in the South? good job. Or did they burn down NYC in the draft riots, since the Irish didn't feel like making the railroads and land speculators rich?

They were opportunist and did both. The German side of the family refused to pick a side.

They should have been for the sake of holiness and morality as Tradition from the former Holy Roman Empire.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

As you know, Running Bear's ancestors also came from somewhere else, yet they are called native Americans.

Seniority has its privileges?

Not under the 14th Amendment.

 

[danielpalos]

As you know, Running Bear's ancestors also came from somewhere else, yet they are called native Americans.

Seniority has its privileges?

Not under the 14th Amendment.

Too late for that; besides, Indians not taxed have Tradition on their side.

 

[DudleySmith]

Immigration had a purpose when we had a huge empty country to fill and actually needed laborers of all types but at this point we need to be more selective and actually have requirements like people with needed skills .

There has never been a 'labor shortage' in the U.S. in our entire history. Just because some speculator wants to get rich a couple years faster and wants extra hands isn't a labor shortage, it's just some greedy fuck whining.