Immigration changes pushed by Democrats have irrevocably changed America

America today is still reeling from the sweeping impact of the 1965 immigration law changes. The modifications were pushed Democrats who have clearly benefited from them.

In 1968, just a few years after the bill’s passage, the New York Times reported that "the extent of the change" in immigration because of the new law had surprised nearly everyone, but that it was unlikely to be modified because "congressmen don’t want to look like racists."  Jeremy Carl is a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute and a former senior official in the Trump administration. He has a new book: "The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism is Tearing America Apart." He can be contacted on X at @realJeremyCarl 

What is clear is that the post-1965 immigration boom, rather than serving as a continuation of longstanding American policy, was a spectacular repudiation of that policy. Over the last six decades, America’s government has created a new American people. Democrats, who have not won the White vote since 1964, simply elected another people through immigration policy and attacked any White person who complained as a racist.  

Given the enormous changes it would engender, it was inevitable that Democrat leaders would lie about the Hart-Celler immigration bill before putting it forward in 1965. "This bill that we will sign today is not a revolutionary bill," President Lyndon Johnson said. "It does not affect the lives of millions. It will not reshape the structure of our daily lives."