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<blockquote data-quote="GeorgeL" data-source="post: 2655774" data-attributes="member: 227728"><p>Their origins were absolutely restrictive. Modern immigration law traces its origins to the effort to stop Chinese immigration in the 19th century. it never occured to anyone that the Chinese laborers who came to work on the railroad wouldn&#039;t leave and would bring in more behind them.&nbsp; The so called &quot;modern&quot; interpretation of the 14th amendment also owes its origins to the efforts to deny US citizenship to their children born in the US. Obviously, immigration law remained restrictive in many aspects through the 1920s and on to the 1960s.&nbsp; I would agure that US immigration law obviously evolved after that and opened up to non European immigration after that, and if you&#039;ll take a look at US immigration patterns today, there&#039;s little if any relationship to US policies in the 1920&#039;s and it&#039;s fairly pointless to draw any relationship between now and then.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="GeorgeL, post: 2655774, member: 227728"] Their origins were absolutely restrictive. Modern immigration law traces its origins to the effort to stop Chinese immigration in the 19th century. it never occured to anyone that the Chinese laborers who came to work on the railroad wouldn't leave and would bring in more behind them. The so called "modern" interpretation of the 14th amendment also owes its origins to the efforts to deny US citizenship to their children born in the US. Obviously, immigration law remained restrictive in many aspects through the 1920s and on to the 1960s. I would agure that US immigration law obviously evolved after that and opened up to non European immigration after that, and if you'll take a look at US immigration patterns today, there's little if any relationship to US policies in the 1920's and it's fairly pointless to draw any relationship between now and then. [/QUOTE]

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