. Who does ?? There has in the past for the purpose of balance been placed "A Moratorium" on immigration. Now was that racist ??
What does it have to do with racism? If person A comes here from another country and gets rich... then all of a sudden they think other people shouldn't be allowed to come here from the same country and get the same chances of creating a better life for themselves... you really don't see a problem with that?
Samuel Gompers, founder of the AFL and a Jewish immigrant himself, wrote in a 1921 letter to COngress, "...but we insist that it is our essential duty to maintain and preserve our physical condition and standard of life and civilization, and thus to assure us the opportunity for the development of our intellectual and moral character. Self-preservation has always been regarded as the first law of nature. It is a principle and a necessity from which we ought not and must not depart.“
In 1924 he wrote "America must not be overwhelmed. Every effort to enact immigration legislation must expect to meet a number of hostile forces and, in particular, two hostile forces of considerable strength. One of these is composed of corporation employers who desire to employ physical strength (broad backs) at the lowest possible wage and who prefer a rapidly revolving labor supply at low wages to a regular supply of American wage earners at fair wages. The other is composed of racial groups in the United States who oppose all restrictive legislation because they want the doors left open for an influx of their countrymen regardless of the menace to the people of their adopted country."