Donald J. Trump, White House Hypocrisy, and the Immigration Act of 1924

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The hang-wringing and blowback from the suggestion by Donald J. Trump to implement a pause in the immigration of Muslims to the United States of America, has been everything that the consummate showman now doubt hoped for...and more.

White House Spokesperson Josh Earnest was positively apoplectic at yesterday's Daily Press Conference, as Breitbart.com reports...

President Barack Obama’s spokesman angrily lashed out at Donald Trump for proposing a ban on Muslim immigration to the United States, and accused him of “offensive bluster” and “grotesque and offensive” language.

“The fact is, that what Donald Trump said yesterday disqualifies him from serving as president,” spokesman Josh Earnest said, suggesting to reporters that his words were fundamentally anti-American.

Earnest denounced Trump’s “carnival barker routine” which included “outright lies” and mocked the Republican frontrunner for having “fake hair.” He said:

The Trump campaign, for months now, has had a dustbin of history-like quality to it, from the vacuous sloganeering to the outright lies to even the fake hair, the whole carnival barker routine that we’ve seen for some time now. Earnest also denounced other Republicans for continuing to say that they would support the nominee of the Republican party even it was Donald Trump.

Earnest suggested the Republican Party is racist for failing to denounce Trump’s presidential campaign, and he reminded reporters that House Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) once called himself “David Duke without the baggage.” He said:

"Earlier this year, House Republicans elected to their leadership somebody who famously bragged to a reporter that he’s David Duke without the baggage."

“They should say right now that they will not support him for president,” Earnest said, as he called Trump’s proposal “morally reprehensible.”

Earnest said Republicans leaders should:

"Say right now that they would not support Donald Trump for president. What he said is disqualifying and any Republican who’s too fearful of the Republican base to admit it has no business serving as president either. OK?"

When asked why the White House had decided to weigh in on Trump’s hair, Earnest defended the topic as an important part of the campaign.

“Well I guess I was describing why it would be easy for people to dismiss the Trump campaign as not particularly serious,” he said.

“Because of his hair?” one reporter asked in disbelief.

“Well because he’s got a rather outrageous appearance, that’s the hallmark of his campaign and his identity, though, that’s the point I’m trying to cite there,” he said.

“How do you know that it’s fake?” asked a second reporter.

“Well I guess I’m happy to be fact checked,” Earnest replied.

Suspending immigration is not a new concept.

It's been done before...for over 40 years.

The following information is courtesy of u-s-history.com...

During the Harding administration, a stop-gap immigration measure was passed by Congress in 1921 for the purpose of slowing the flood of immigrants entering the United States.

A more thorough law was signed by President Coolidge in May 1924. It provided for the following:

The quota for immigrants entering the U.S. was set at two percent of the total of any given nation`s residents in the U.S. as reported in the 1890 census; after July 1, 1927, the two percent rule was to be replaced by an overall cap of 150,000 immigrants annually and quotas determined by "national origins" as revealed in the 1920 census.

College students, professors and ministers were exempted from the quotas. Initially immigration from the other Americas was allowed, but measures were quickly developed to deny legal entry to Mexican laborers.

The clear aim of this law was to restrict the entry of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, while welcoming relatively large numbers of newcomers from Britain, Ireland, and Northern Europe.

The 1921 law had used the 1910 census to determine the base for the quotas; by changing to the 1890 census when fewer Italians or Bulgarians lived in the U.S., more of the "dangerous` and "different" elements were kept out. This legislation reflected discriminatory sentiments that had surfaced earlier during the Red Scare of 1919-20.

Total Entering U.S.	Country of Origin
	Great Britain	Eastern Europe*	Italy
1920	430,001	38,471	3,913	95,145
1921	805,228	51,142	32,793	222,260
1922	309,556	25,153	12,244	40,319
1923	522,919	45,759	16,082	46,674
1924	706,896	59,490	13,173	56,246
1925	294,314	27,172	1,566	6,203
1926	304,488	25,528	1,596	8,253

*Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey.

U.S. Bureau of the Census, Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1957 (Washington, D.C., 1960), p. 56.

A provision in the 1924 law barred entry to those ineligible for citizenship — effectively ending the immigration of all Asians into the United States and undermining the earlier "Gentlemen`s Agreement" with Japan. Efforts by Secretary of State Hughes to change this provision were not successful and actually inflamed the passions of the anti-Japanese press, which was especially strong on the West Coast.

Heated protests were issued by the Japanese government and a citizen committed seppuku outside the American embassy in Tokyo. May 26, the effective date of the legislation, was declared a day of national humiliation in Japan, adding another in a growing list of grievances against the U.S.

(The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 upheld the national origins quota system established by the Immigration Act of 1924, reinforcing these quotas.)

In 1965, the Hart-Cellar Act abolished the national origins quota system that had structured America`s immigration policy since the 1920`s, replacing it with a preference system that emphasized immigrants` skills and family relationships with citizens or residents of the United States.

Additionally, in April of 1980, during the Iranian Hostage Crisis, President Jimmy Carter cancelled all visas issued to Iranians for entry into the United States and warned that they would be revalidated only for "compelling and proven humanitarian reasons or where the national interest requires."

So, what Trump proposed has been done before

Evidently, no one ever told Obama and his Administration that when you point your finger at someone, there are 4 other fingers pointing back at you.

On January 7th of this year, Abraham H. Miller wrote the following blog, featured on thehill.com...

At the end of World War II, the Jewish survivors of Europe’s Holocaust found that nearly every door was closed to them. “Tell Me Where Can I Go?” was a popular Yiddish song at the time. Decades later, the Christians of the Middle East face the same problem, and the Obama administration is keeping the door shut.

America is about to accept 9000 Syrian Muslims, refugees of the brutal war between the Assad regime and its Sunni opposition, which includes ISIS, Al Qaeda, and various other militias. That number is predicted to increase each year.  There are no Christian refugees that will be admitted.

Why? Because the Department of State is adhering with all the rigidity of a Soviet era bureaucracy to the rule that only people at risk from massacres launched by the regime qualify for refugee status. The rapes of Christian women and the butchery of Christian children do not count. No matter how moved Americans were this Christmas season by the plight of their fellow Christ followers in Syria and Iraq, no matter how horrific the visuals of beheadings, enslavement, and mass murder, the Christians fleeing death do not engender the compassion of this president.

The Christians are being raped, tortured, and murdered by militias, not by the Syrian government. This technicality condemns them to continue to be victims without hope. And this technicality is being adhered to with all the tenacity with which President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s State Department manipulated quotas and created subterfuges  to keep out the Jews fleeing the oppression of Nazi Germany. Obama no more wants the Middle East’s Christian refugees than Roosevelt wanted Europe’s Jewish refugees.

We have seen in the last several weeks that President Obama has no difficulty using his “phone and his pen,” as he dramatically boasts, to circumvent the law. When it comes to immigration, he had no difficulty enacting an amnesty that a federal judge  subsequently ruled unconstitutional. He has had no problem circumventing Congress to change the relationship with Cuba. This president has shown that he will push back on the constraints of law when he wants to get something done.

But there are not even such constraints when it comes to the Middle East’s Christians fleeing the brutality of ISIS and Al Qaeda. The Department of State chooses to adhere to a definition of refugees as people persecuted by their own government. What difference does it make which army imperils the lives of innocent Christians?  Christians are still be slaughtered for being Christian, and their government is incapable of protecting them. Does some group have to come along—as Jewish groups did during the Holocaust—and sardonically guarantee that these are real human beings?

The Christians would barely have to be vetted for ties to terror organizations, which by their very nature do not take Christians. Meanwhile, there is the uncomfortable issue that among the Sunni refugees there are some in league with the Sunni terror militias. And beyond that there is the equally uncomfortable question of the acculturation of segments of the Muslim community.

That our Muslim neighbors are as worthy of being good Americans as anyone else is not an issue. That a highly active and prominent minority in the Muslim community seeks to transform America is an issue and one that cannot be overlooked, when taking in Muslim refugees.  Will they be vetted for seeking the transformation of America through jihad?

Whether the recent violence in Australia, the murder of two New York policemen, the Boston Marathon bombings, the growing list of victims of honor killings in Western societies, the forced closing of streets in Paris for Muslim prayers, the Muslim no-go and Sharia patrol areas of Britain, the rape of infidel women in Sweden, or the call by Council on Islamic American Relations that Islam is not in America to be another religion but to transform America, there is a Muslim problem. That it is not a problem precipitated by a majority of Muslims does not lessen its dangers.

No doubt the majority of the Muslim refugees will become good American citizens, but the real concern is that a significant minority will not. Yet, the Middle East Christians, even as a minority, do not pose remotely the same kind of threat.

With Christmas fresh in our minds, it is time for all people of good will to say to the Obama administration that telling Christians awaiting death that there is no room for them in the inn is not only unacceptable, it is also, to use President Obama’s own words, “not who we are.” This season, Christians  need to make their voice heard. They should not act as the Jews did, waiting for a president who had no intention of doing anything, to do something.

If you were watching Saturday morning cartoons in 1977 on ABC, you would have seen this Schoolhouse Rock musical cartoon titled The Great American Melting Pot.  It extolled the unique greatness of  our American heritage.

For a while now, that heritage has been under attack.

The Immigration Act of 1924 was passed because America had experienced an overwhelming flood of immigrants, which strained the resources of our nation.

This act allowed all of these immigrants to be assimilated into American Society and to actually become Americans, in thought, word, deed, and LOYALTY.

An Liberal President Jimmy Carter stopped Iranians from immigrating, because, just like the situation we faced today with Radical Islam, we were AT WAR.

As the article from thehill.com shows, Obama and his Administration are themselves being restrictive in whom they allow to immigrate to America.

The only reason that they are mad at Donald J. Trump is that he is attempting to thwart their plans to rapidly import thousands of Muslims, and potential Democrat Voters, into our country.

Like all Liberals, they remain oblivious of their own hypocrisy.

Until He Comes,

KJ

Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs -

Ann Coulter: If Immigration Continues Like This, ‘We Will Have 100 Years of Obamas’

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Photo: The Sam Malone Radio Show

by Lana Shadwick16 Oct 20151030

HOUSTON, Texas — Ann Coulter was in Houston promoting her book Adios, America! when she warned that “If immigration continues the way it has been going, we are looking at 100 years of President Obamas.” She explained, this is the reason “Immigration is the one overriding issue for the entire country for all-time.”

Coulter was speaking to a large audience in a university auditorium who had gathered to hear her and Hugh Hewitt. The event was sponsored by AM1070 “The Answer” and the Sam Malone Radio Show. At the beginning of her speech she told them, “If you have been following my work, you know that I think there is one overriding issue for the entire country for all-time.” She quipped, “And no matter what the question is, you could ask me about my meatloaf recipe and I could turn it back to immigration.”

She expounded, “The American people are being out-voted, we can’t win anything, if immigration, legal and illegal … continues the way it has been going, we are looking at 100 years of President Obamas, and an entire Supreme Court of Ruth Bader Ginsbergs.”
She asked, “So tell me how you are going to win on any of these issues then Republicans? Tell me how you are going to win on the export-import bank, or how you are going to overturn Roe v. Wade when you can never elect another president? How is Israel going to be protected then, when we can never have another Republican president when we are looking at nothing but President Obamas?” She answered her own question -“It won’t be. That’s why everything comes down to immigration.”

Coulter told the crowd gathered at Houston Baptist University that after the November 2012 election, “I think like a lot of us, I was deeply depressed.” She added, “That was when I thought maybe this is it, maybe this is over. Teddy Kennedy put in an evil, genius plan and has changed the country enough.” Coulter explained, “If you had the same country as in 1980, Romney would have won a bigger landslide than Reagan did against Carter in 1980 but the Democrats have brought in ringers, they haven’t changed anyone’s mind.” Coulter did not want to hear that the Democrats have reached Americans, she doesn’t believe that. She said, “If anything, Americans are moving to the right, but Americans are being out-voted by foreigners who Democrats have brought in.”

The author of ten New York Times bestsellers turned the discussion to the 2016 presidential candidates and referred to her new book Adios, America!: The Left’s Plan to Turn Our Country Into a Third World Hellhole. She said the last five pages of her book details the presidential candidates’ position on immigration.

She said she was “getting pretty pessimistic” about our candidates and was thinking that our only hope was to bring Mitt Romney into the race but added, “But that was before Trump came along.”  Coulter said that Romney had been “by-far” the best candidate on illegal immigration and he had a 20-year record to prove it.

On Trump she said, “How do you like a wall and mass deportation?”  She added, “I so love the idea of the ‘Great Wall of Trump.’”
Coulter also addressed the claim that Trump would not give any details. She jabbed, “I haven’t heard any of the other candidates give any details about immigration and border security. They just have different ways of explaining why we can’t have a wall.” She said she would like to have an entire debate to hear the other candidates (besides Trump) discuss why walls don’t work. “Once they have done that,” she retorted, “perhaps they can tell us why buckets don’t work, why wheels don’t work.”

Referring to Trump, Coulter told the crowd, “It’s given me a new lease on life.”
The syndicated columnist said that two years ago she emailed an immigration strategy to a presidential candidate. She added that she re-emailed the strategy to him last week and told him that if he had followed the strategy, he would be polling like Trump right now. She said with some excitement, I knew this was working, and it is working.

To those who object to Trump’s personality, she persuasively insists that the issue boils down to immigration. She was clear in her message that unless immigration stops, and controls are put into place, the Republican Party will not be able to accomplish any of its goals.
Coulter warned about the control that the huge donors have and used Scott Walker as an example. She said Walker was “against anchor babies” but then Republican billionaire donor Stanley Hubbard got to him and said, “No, actually, we are for anchor babies. So suddenly Scott Walker did not have a position,” she said. Hubbard is a billionaire heir that is now the chairman and CEO of Hubbard Broadcasting.

Coulter said the billionaire donors “don’t care about our country, our culture, they certainly don’t care about the Republican Party.” She said they just want to make their money and retire and move to an island.

She said that Trump is exposing the donors, the RNC, and the establishment, and he is forcing the Republican candidates to take “suicidal positions.” The billionaire presidential candidate is shining the light on the influence that the billionaire donors are having.

The author of Adios, America! said she could see Trump getting the nomination.
Turning to the issue of winning the election, she said, “Liberals are always talking about turning Texas blue.” She said Texas has as many Hispanic voters as they do in California and that Hispanics block vote for Democrats. The difference she said is that white people in California split their vote among Republicans and Democrats, but Whites in Texas voted 80 percent for Mitt Romney.

“A candidate that will run with the immigration positions that Donald Trump has put forward, is going to get a lot of people coming out.” She predicted that people who haven’t voted, used to vote Republican, and haven’t been voting at all, will come out and vote.
Coulter said Republicans have a shot, and compared it to what Pete Wilson did in California in 1994 when he ran on an anti-immigration platform. She explained this was about the time California was “tipping,” when California had roughly the same demographics as the entire country does now. She said Wilson won from a come-behind victory but added, “Republicans are just going to have to stop being embarrassed for having white people vote for them.” She said Republicans need to get “a few more white people to vote Republican.” Once that is done she said, “then things will solve itself.” As Ronald Reagan said she added, you can always trust the American people. Coulter said she trusts the American people to make the right decision on a lot of things. She said things may swing left, but then they swing to the right.

Coulter said she was looking very forward to the next eighteen months.
Lana Shadwick is a contributing writer and legal analyst for Breitbart Texas. She has served as a prosecutor and an associate judge in Texas. Follow her on Twitter @LanaShadwick2