Displaced Persons, Poland

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1 Displaced Persons, Poland

2 American soldier looking over a line of newly released prisoners waiting to get food at a Displaced Persons Camp. Location:GermanyDate taken:april 1945

3 Aerial view of camp for displaced persons who do not want to return home. Wildflecken, Germany 1945

4 A satirical drawing shows Lithuanians feeing Stalin's rays. The caption translates, "In our land there is still Big Heat.

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6 Conservative Coalition

7 Truman Veto Message of McCarran Walter Act of 1953 "Today, we are protecting ourselves as we were in 1924, against being flooded by immigrants from Eastern Europe. This is fantastic...we do not need to be protected against immigrants from these countries on the contrary we want to stretch out a helping hand, to save those who have managed to flee into Western Europe, to succor those who are brave enough to escape from barbarism, to welcome and restore them against the day when their countries will, as we hope, be free again...these are only a few examples of the absurdity, the cruelty of carrying over into this year of 1952 the isolationist limitations of our 1924 law. In no other realm of our national life are we so hampered and stultified by the dead hand of the past, as we are in this field of immigration."

8 ere are no inborn differences of personality, character, lligence, or cultural and social traits among races. basic racist assumption of the national origins system valid.

9 Hungarian Refugee Crisis, 1956

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11 Bracero Picking Carrots 1954 Sugar beet

12 Operation Wetback

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14 George Meany, AFL-CIO

15 Hart-Celler Bill, Immigration Act of 1965 LBJ This bill that we will sign today is not a revolutionary bill. It does not affect the lives of millions. It will not reshape the structure of our daily lives, or really add importantly to either our wealth or our power. Yet it is still one of the most important acts of this Congress and of this administration. For it does repair a very deep and painful flaw in the fabric of American justice. It corrects a cruel and enduring wrong in the conduct of the American Nation. This system violated the basic principle of American democracy--the principle that values and rewards each man on the basis of his merit as a man.

16 And while we are here.. make all the necessary arrangements to permit those in Cuba who seek freedom to make an orderly entry into the United States of America.

17 Crushing of Prague Spring 52-72,000 Czech Refugees welcomed

18 Fall of Saigon Operation Babylift->

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20 Members of the CIA's Hmong Secret Arm in Laos, circa 1965 Hmong Refugees in Laos Waiting for Evacuation Operation Babylift

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22 Odd Politics of Illegal Immigration, 1970

23 Cesar Chavez "... when the farm workers strike and their strike is successful, the employers go to Mexico and have unlimited, unrestricted use of illegal alien strikebreakers to break the strike. And, for over 30 years, the Immigration and Naturalization Service has looked the other way and assisted in the strikebreaking. I do not remember one single instance in 30 years where the Immigration service has removed strikebreakers.... The employers use professional smugglers to recruit and transport human contraband across the Mexican border for the specific act of strikebreaking... Chavez to RFK- Remove Wetbacks!

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26 In enacting this legislation, we are giving a new chance in life to 214,000 fellow humans. This action demonstrates again America's traditional concern for the homeless, the persecuted and the less fortunate of other lands. It is a dramatic contrast to the tragic events taking place in East Germany and in other captive nations. This legislation also offers encouragement to the other friendly nations which are today affording asylum to refugees and escapees. It is my hope that, in our action, by our direct participation with them in this great humanitarian work, we are giving them cause to continue their efforts with renewed enthusiasm. DDE August 7, 1953

27 And while we are here.. make all the necessary arrangements to permit those in Cuba who seek freedom to make an orderly entry into the United States of America.

28 Crushing of Prague Spring 52-72,000 Czech Refugees welcomed

29 Fall of Saigon Operation Babylift->

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31 Members of the CIA's Hmong Secret Arm in Laos, circa 1965 Hmong Refugees in Laos Waiting for Evacuation

32 Mariel Boatlift, 1980

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37 Odd Politics of Illegal Immigration, 1970 Cesar Chavez, Founder United Farm Workers Fritz Mondale, D-MN Senator Eastland, D-MS

38 Cesar Chavez "... when the farm workers strike and their strike is successful, the employers go to Mexico and have unlimited, unrestricted use of illegal alien strikebreakers to break the strike. And, for over 30 years, the Immigration and Naturalization Service has looked the other way and assisted in the strikebreaking. I do not remember one single instance in 30 years where the Immigration service has removed strikebreakers.... The employers use professional smugglers to recruit and transport human contraband across the Mexican border for the specific act of strikebreaking... Chavez to RFK- Remove Wetbacks!

39 Split on Employer Sanctions

40 New Restrictionists

41 Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy Theodore Hesburgh Judge Cruz Reynosa Rose Ochio

42 Anti Employer Sanctions

43 IRCA 1986 Simpson-Mazzolli Act

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45 Failure of IRCA

46 Supreme Court Justice William Brennan

47 The 1990 Immigration Act

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49 Peter Brimelow- the role of race as "elemental, absolute, fundamental." He said that white Americans should demand that U.S. immigration quotas be changed to allow in mostly whites. Immigrants "weird aliens with dubious habits." "you find yourself in an underworld that is not just teeming but also almost entirely colored."

50 Prop 187

51 Lamar Smith, R-TX, San Antonio IIRIRA 96

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