Was the 1924 Immigration Cut-off “Racist”?
Patrick Cleburne at VDARE has written an article on Jewish pro-immigration activist Ilya Somin (“Volokh Conspiracy’s Ilya Somin Smears 1924 Immigration Act—For Contemptibly Selfish Reasons). His theme of the selfish reasons immigration enthusiasts like Somin present is certainly an important one. As Cleburne notes, Somin is “openly ethnocentric,” and I have come to believe that […]