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One fascinating aspect of the New Deal era is its immigration conservatism. In 1924, a much more conservative Congress passed a Europeans only immigration law that restricted overall numbers quite drastically. In the New Deal, as far as I've been able to research, neither FDR nor the Democratic congressional leadership made any move to change the overall policy.
Toward the end of the thirties FDR did make a sucessfull effort to ensure that German Jews filled out the German quota, but basically the overall immigration structure was unchanged, even by the late thirties as the unemployment crisis in the US was much less severe than in the early thirties. Back then the left/right political debate was so much more class than race oriented, that what amounted to a de facto pro-white immigration policy wasn't even up for political debate. FDR, modern day right-wing immigration restrictionist, who'd have thunk it?
Toward the end of the thirties FDR did make a sucessfull effort to ensure that German Jews filled out the German quota, but basically the overall immigration structure was unchanged, even by the late thirties as the unemployment crisis in the US was much less severe than in the early thirties. Back then the left/right political debate was so much more class than race oriented, that what amounted to a de facto pro-white immigration policy wasn't even up for political debate. FDR, modern day right-wing immigration restrictionist, who'd have thunk it?
